Беден старец, който живее в Монтана, постоянно бяга от къщи, за да отиде в Небраска и да си прибере наградата от лотарията, която вярва, че е спечелил. Сломено от неговата задълбочаваща се деменция, семейството му обсъжда възможността той да бъде настанен в хоспис. Докато единият от синовете му най-после предлага да закара баща си с колата. Старецът пострадва по пътя и се налага двамата да отседнат в малко западащо градче в Небраска, където бащата е роден и където, под внимателното наблюдение на сина, той преоткрива миналото си. (Не се тревожете - това е комедия!)

Devout but iron-willed Father Flanagan leads a community called Boys Town, a different sort of juvenile detention facility where, instead of being treated as underage criminals, the boys are shepherded into making themselves better people. But hard-nosed petty thief and pool shark Whitey Marsh, the impulsive and violent younger brother of an imprisoned murderer, might be too much for the good father's tough-love system.

An overenthusiastic high-school maintenance man attempts to lead an unlikely group of misfits to the Nebraska state tennis championship in Balls Out: The Gary Houseman Story? director Danny Leiner's underdog sports comedy. American Pie star Seann William Scott stars as the ambitious janitor who believes he has what it takes to coach the winning team.

Pioneering the harsh landscape of Nebraska was difficult enough in 1869. Pioneering a new university was almost beyond reason. What was a university? Who should go? What should be taught? There were no guidebooks. No road maps. They were building a university out of little more than hopes and dreams.

Take a journey with Norman Geske, Nebraska's Father of the Arts, with this feature length documentary about the impact one man has had on the artistic and cultural heritage of Nebraska and beyond.