A windswept mining town serves as the backdrop of this dramatic tale of one man’s risky leap into the big time. Forty-two-year-old Sam (the charismatic Salmon, in a commanding performance), a hard-drinking father of three, an ex-Navy man, an ex-miner, and a soon-to-be ex-husband, starts gambling full time to bankroll his crazy plan to open a drive-in theater in Africa.