A young man having a hard time finding the right path through the turbulent years of adolescence, Max rather reluctantly agrees to join the Army to please his mother. She has arrived at the difficult decision to send her son into harm's way, with the country waging war on the other side of the world, with a very heavy heart. She wonders what kind of mother would voluntarily send her son off to war. She feels he is headed down the wrong path, bound for big problems ahead, and doesn't know what el