Sandra Wynn is a beauty with a passion for basketball but has flaws that drive a wedge between her and her husband, Kurt Krieg, an intense college coach who thinks the sources of those flaws need frontier justice. Justin Bleary loves his coach but worries about his own future on Kurt's team. One hot April day in Oakland midway through the Clinton Administration, dominoes begin to fall.... and don't stop tumbling until well into the 21st Century as a diverse swirl of good guys and bad guys — dealers, cops, gangsters and jocks — blindly do battle against enemies real and imagined.