It's 1962 on the Texas Gulf Coast, and 15-year-old Charlie Sweetwater and his brother, Johnny, are happily oblivious to the world's problems. Charlie's main concerns are qualifying for an upcoming Golden Gloves boxing tournament, ducking a local bully and, with any luck, stealing a kiss from Carmen DelfIn, the prettiest girl he's ever laid eyes on. Charlie's last innocent summer ends abruptly when his boxing coach is murdered and his friend, a black...