Logline:
After his college football career falls short of the NFL, a resilient athlete grinds to overcome failure and free his family from poverty, despite the pressure threatening to destroy him. 

SYNOPSIS:

The grind is real, and it will take everything you have just to get a shot. That’s all AKEEM SWIFT wants - his fair shot to prove he has got what it takes to live the only dream he’s fought for since he was 14 years old: play professional football in the National Football League. But what drives Akeem most is giving back to his family, the family that has sacrificed everything for him. FREE YOUR FAMILY | The three-word mantra that has Akeem rising before the sun, training like a man possessed, balancing a job and, grinding himself into dust for biased coaches, fickle agents, inscrutable scouts. Live your dream; free your family. But what happens when that dream becomes an endless, cyclical, back-breaking, and soul-crushing nightmare? At what point does one give up their dreams, surrender to fate? What is a man’s breaking point, and what happens to his family if he fails them? Teetering at the edge of his rope, Akeem Swift is about to find out what he’s made of