Clay Marks is an aging, neurodivergent weightlifter who is mentally ill, resulting from growing up an orphan at the Mercy Home for Boys and Girls and witnessing countless acts of the rampant gun violence on the streets of Chicago...ironically, while working his "survival" construction job to help support himself as he chased his childhood dream of competing in the Olympic Games. His obsessive drive to go to the Olympics runs much deeper than merely harnessing his rage at a broken world for personal ambition. Through one final, desperate, futile run at the Games in the form of a crucible week-long training session at the historic Sayre Park Weightlifting Club (a world-renowned gym known for producing some of the best TEAM USA Olympians and coaches), Clay's destiny is revealed.