The pupils at a high school next to a nuclear power plant start acting and looking strange after buying contaminated drugs from a plant worker.

Billy Dombrowski and a rag-tag group kids set out on a journey to form a hockey team. To become a team, they must first learn to work together, trust in each other's abilities to win -- together they are persevering on thin ice.

Encompassed by violent street gangs, neglectful parents, bullying teachers and a dearth of positive role models, a studious but emotionally abandoned kid turns thug.