Sam, a former professional ice-hockey player who now works as a sports broadcaster, finds his machismo threatened when his partner Ed’s 11 year-old nephew Scot comes to live with them. Scot is an expert knitter addicted to boas, makeup and show tunes and, terrified that he will be persecuted ruthlessly at school, Sam decides to straighten him out – with hilarious and affecting results. Thoroughly clever and charming, the film expertly unpicks both Sam’s divided psyche and the sports world in general which traditionally operates on a false and dated notion of masculinity.