Dickie Moore, who also narrates, uses a crutch as he's still recovering from an injury. While out in nature, he finds an eagle with a damaged wing and brings it home, covering it with his jacket. He’d learned that injured wings supposedly don’t heal, but like his own recovery, he wants to see the eagle flying again. They begin to form a connection, and when the boy discovers a rattlesnake on some rocks, the eagle sho…