"who's laughing now?" in 1972 private martelli arrived home from the vietnam war where he was a pow. al moved in with his mother rose) who resided in ocean view florida. al suffers from flashbacks filled with torture and mayhem. a 180 miles away in orlando was a ten-year-old boy named joseph columbo. joey was blind in one eye from a bow and arrow-accident. it's an emotional carnage which is made worse when he is brutally teased. meantime his father(victor) is consumed with making millions while his mother(nikki) is busy sexually pleasing her husband. so there was joey feeling abandoned. soon joey would travel to ocean view to attend a special school. he would live with grandmother and uncle. at first al and joey despised each other. however over the course of time these two battered souls would come together and heal. their common dominator was their love for the game of baseball. the summer of 1973 would be a time al and joey would reflect back upon as the turning point in their lives.