Toby Ramm is the nation's most highly-touted quarterback prospect since Peyton Manning, and he is beginning his freshman year away on a full-ride scholarship at a prestigious university. Turner Ramm, his high school sophomore younger brother, is given the assignment of chronicling his illustrious older sibling's every move for the local newspaper, since the small hometown of Cola Lake, California from which they hail is football crazy. Realizing that perhaps he doesn't always want to be in the shadow of his esteemed brother, Turner embarks down a rocky path of self-discovery, and through an unusual association with Cola Lake's most enigmatic resident, he begins to learn what growing up really means.