Plot Synopsis

Based on a short story by Christopher Millard. When 13 year-old Christopher Millard begins chemotherapy for cancer he uses his imagination and writes a story about a gallant but forgotten knight of King Arthur's Round Table. In parallel stories, he fights against the forces of evil while at the same time battling the demons of his own life--pain, alienation from friends at school and his and his family's fears the he might die. As he creates this imaginary world, he transposes the people in his real life into characters in his story.