A coming of age tale about a directionless nineteen-year-old boy, Andy Venable, who works in a warehouse and plays drums in a heavy-metal band at night. He wants his sick mother, a devout Catholic, to meet the Pope before she dies. Along the way, he falls for a girl out of his league and discovers a musical talent that may be his true calling.
Pope Dreams
A musician's life is turned upside down by a whirlwind romance with an elusive lover, amidst the chaos of his band's growing tensions and the well-meaning but often overbearing interference of his family and best friend.