Monica Wright and Quincy McCall grew up in the same neighborhood and have known each other since childhood. As they grow into adulthood, they fall in love, but they also share another all-consuming passion: basketball. As Quincy and Monica struggle to make their relationship work, they follow separate career paths though high school and college basketball and, they hope, into stardom in big-league professional ball.

Follows a budding basketball star on the rise as tragedy strikes when he loses his parents and develops a sex addiction to cope with the pain. During the healing process a forbidden love forms between him and his sex therapist as he rises from the ashes like a phoenix to proclaim what he's worked so hard for his entire life.