Senior high school wrestler Louden Swain is the undefeated, a man obsessed with trying to shed 23 pounds in a dangerously short time and accept Shute , tough-as-nails 168-pound winner who's the greatest wrestler in the country. Matthew Modine stars since the student undeterred in his Vision Quest. . .until aday an attractive drifter threatens to pin Louden and his dreams to unrequited love's mat.