While traveling across the country, a group of teenagers decide to launch a kids' campaign against nuclear war unaware that they are being pursued by government agents determined to kill each of them.
Seventh grader Matt Tyson is tempted to join his new friend Allie in a public protest against the Army's decision to stockpile nuclear missiles outside their town, even though the demonstration conflicts with a big football game in which he is needed to play.
Discusses the history of the arms race and the growth of the nuclear freeze movement. Explains how the freeze would work and examines the arguments for and against it.