Clifford Peach, an easygoing teenager, is finding less than easy to fit in at his high school, by which a bully terrorizes his classmates and extorts their lunch money. Clifford enlist aid from an overgrown misfit whose students and teachers intimidates equally. But their"business relationship" soon turns personal as Clifford and the distressed loner devise a winning alliance against their intimidators - and also a very special friendship with one another.