On the verge of despair following the homicide of his father, Cory, a nervous, guilt-ridden 12-year-old "altar boy", is coaxed by his adventurous finest buddy, Ben, to show their manhood by embarking on their first in a single day fishing journey out within the wild on the Mississippi Bayou's Wolf River; however their journey goes awry when the hapless "altar boys" turn out to be targets of a mob hit in progress by a cold-blooded murderer who is set to gather on a playing debt.
