Kile, a young point guard for the Cleveland Calipers of the International Basketball Organization, meets a pretty white coed, Ashley, at an Akron Mall and they become involved in an interracial relationship. His team plays in the Richfield Coliseum, 22 miles south of Cleveland, but only 13 miles north of Akron. It begins happily but ends tragically. He is also friends with the controversial superstar of the IBO, LaDodge Jones, who likes to be known as LSD because he thinks he's a real trip.