Young Drake Coleridge has been living in a nightmare since he had his first grand mal seizure. If he can't get the episodes under control, he won't be able to play basketball his freshman year at Kent State in the fall.and life without basketball would be unthinkable. His only hope is to find his biological father, a man he's never met. So Drake sets out on a secret canoe trip down the Ohio River and into the wild and dangerous back country of Wayne Forest..