Breakaway

Twenty-something Rajveer Singh, a second generation Canadian of Sikh descent, still lives at home with his parents and his preteen brother Gurveer in Toronto despite Raj often being at loggerheads with his traditional father, Darvesh Singh. In acts of rebellion against that traditionalism, Raj recently dropped out of college and long ago cut his hair and stopped wearing a turban. Their disagreements of late have been of a more fundamental nature about life goals. Darvesh's view of the Canadian dream is to work hard at a conventional job to become wealthy, he seeing Raj some day take over Darvesh's younger brother Sammy Singh's multi-million dollar trucking business where both Darvesh and Raj work in the yard, something that would probably not sit well with Sammy's soon to be son-in-law Sonu, who talks and acts big. Raj's view of the Canadian dream is to do what makes you happy, which for him means hockey, from Darvesh's perspective a "white man" game. Among his Sikh friends with who he plays pickup, Raj is not only the only one with inherent talent but that takes the game seriously. And while Raj is arguably more talented than anyone on the Hammerheads, a team on which he aspires to be a player, they who play in the Hyundai Cup League just under the minor leagues, they only see him as a Sikh who has no business playing the game, period. In meeting Dan Winters, the maintenance man at the rink where they play and learning that he once was a major league player, albeit in only four games, Raj is not only able eventually to convince him to coach them, but Dan is able to convince them that pending his assessment that they should play in the Hyundai Cup League truly to test their mettle with the sport. Through Dan, Raj also meets Melissa Winters, Dan's younger sister who is currently living with him while she attends law school, Raj's other goal being for Melissa to fall for him. With these items in Raj's life, the question becomes if there is any way for Raj and Darvesh to see and understand the other's perspective truly to become family again.