A pinball wizard for the twenty-first century, Wynne Ledbetter is surrounded by despair.
His father is wasting away on workman's comp, his mother is a double-shift waitress obsessed with the lives of the saints, and his sister is a dropout junky.
But Wynne has a plan.
One of only three players in the country to solve the Tang Dynasty computer game, he will travel to the championships in New York City, where the winner pockets a cool million dollars.
With this money, he'll put his sister in re.