Teenagers Jesse and Billy have been best friends/ brothers since elementary school. Jesse the basketball star and Billy, his sidekick that is also his coach Billy recognizes he may not be good at sports but he is always paying attention, watching and learning, and as time goes on, he gets a pretty good eye for basketball. He assists Jesse with his form as they play a little one on one with each other. Nothing could tear them apart from each other except the one thing they knew was coming but they didn’t see coming… life. They didn’t anticipate that once high school was over, they wouldn’t continue life together but a basketball scholarship took Jesse away and what is experienced as a breakdown of sorts makes Billy too unstable to do anything but watch Jesse from a distance. Even though Jesse always tries to visit when he is home from school Billy completely cuts him off. But like all tragedies something as simple as a night on the basketball court brings them together. Jesse wants to know why Billy walked away from their friendship and Billy wants to know how he could have walked. A coming-of-age story that reminds us to check on the people who have always leaned on us when life necessitates that the relationship must change. Some people adjust but for Billy he doesn’t see a world without the one person that gave him love and treated him like family, like a brother. It is a difficult existence when one feels like they don’t have a purpose.
