Tracks a group of steelworker pals from a Pennsylvania blast furnace to the coal hunting grounds of the Alleghenies to the lethal cauldron of Vietnam. It is a drama of friendship and courage and of what happens to these qualities under stress.
The fringe characters from Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' take center stage at Elsinore. They stumble around, unaware of their scripted lives, and unable to deviate from them.