Favorite Son is the story of loner David Paxton,
who returns to his hometown and becomes obsessed with
childhood friend Joan and her
troubled teenage son Ross, seeing them as a
last chance for a "perfect" life.
David is rejected by Joan, but breaks through
Ross's volatile, destructive nature
and forms an unlikely friendship with the boy,
making himself the object of suspicion
and condemnation by the town.
Driven over the edge, David begins
a dangerous descent, targeting town patriarch
Bill Huston, the man who stands between he and Ross,
and heading toward a final violent confrontation
that will explode in the realization and
revelation that David may be a most unlikely,
and worthy hero.