Life is looking great for seventeen-year-old Nathan Stanworth. He is the goal-kicking football star from the small town of Kyabram. Nathan is in his final year of school and has big plans for the future – like winning the premiership cup, acing his Year Twelve exams, graduating, and finally leaving town to study architecture at university. One problem. His tough and overbearing father, Mark, has other plans for him. He is desperate for his son to be the next AFL player to come out of Kyabram. He seems set in preventing Nathan from following his dreams. But a thirty-year-old secret of Mark's that resurfaces on Nathan's 18th birthday changes everything.

Will it force Nathan and his father further apart, or help them reconcile their fragile relationship? And who is the stunning new girl that has caught Nathan's eye?