What do you do when everything familiar in your life might disappear? Mahrukh is excited to be back at school for the winter. They have a new basketball coach, who played in the Indian Olympics team, and Mahrukh has spent the; vacation improving her game. But the term brings trouble after trouble—the new coach suspects the four friends of being bullies, and Empire Stores, which is the centre of Mahrukh's world, is on the verge of shutting down. Everything she loves might go—basketball, Empire Stores, her childhood home ... And the friends also have to unravel the puzzle of the Baldwin basketball team. What are they so afraid of?