The motto of the boarding school to which Tommy Bedford is dispatched is Fortune Favours the Brave. Its 1959 & the school bristles with bullies & sadistic staff. Tommy a quirky loner obsessed with cowboys & Indians needs all the bravery he can summon. Salvation comes when his glamorous actress sister is swept off to Hollywood by one of his heroes TV cowboy Ray Montane. But with the Cold War looming the sinister side of Tinseltown seeps through & Tommy & Diane soon find themselves in jeopardy. Forty years on Tommy has to confront his boyhood ghosts when his own son finds himself charged with murder.