Asthmatic teenager Barry Gabrewski is a daydreamer. Troubled by bullying, he escapes into a fantasy world where he is the sidekick to his martial arts hero, Chuck Norris, in a series of high-octane adventures taken right out of his movies. With help from his teacher's wise old uncle, Mr. Lee, Barry learns the finer points of martial arts and enters a karate championship.
A dark psychological thriller. A sick child experiences frequent hallucinations of a kinship with a celebrity. Instead of getting him mental help, everyone agrees to buy into his parasocial delusions. In the end even we as the audience are sucked into the main characters self deceptions to the point that we can no longer tell fantasy from reality.