Abandoned by his mother when his was 9, high school senior Jay McLeod is left on his own in the town of Sturbridge, Pennsylvania, after his father takes a new job and moves to California. Devastated when he doesn`t make his school`s basketball team, Jay is reduced to playing in the YMCA church league. Facing a year without any support from his family, Jay learns on his own about teamwork, friendship, and romance.