Don't Skip Out on MeMeet Horace Hopper, a twenty one year old farm hand in Tonopah, Nevada, who works for Mr Reece and his wife, the nearest thing he's had to family in years. But Horace, half white half Paiute Indian, dreams of bigger things. Leaving behind the farm and its fragile stability, he heads South to re invent himself as the Mexican boxer Hector Hidalgo. Slowly, painfully, the possibility emerges that his dreams might not just be the delusions of a lost soul.