In a small town in northern Minnesota, the much-anticipated Saturday night dirt-track race at the old-fashioned, barely viable, Headwaters Speedway becomes, in many ways, an important life-changing event for all the participants on and off the track.

Teenaged Trace Bonham, a star driver on the Midwest super-stock circuit, blows away the competition wherever he races, but with every victory Trace is increasingly aware that his winning is due to more than just his driving skills.