Jim Wiggins is a star quarterback for his high school team, the Palouse Panthers. He has a hard life doing chores for his dad on their wheat farm in Idaho. Jim's best friend, Aaron Fleming, is the star receiver with a monumental secret. They each have girlfriends who couldn't be more different. Tragic events pull one of the couples closer together and one of the couples further apart. The Panthers have a stellar season and go to the state championship football game, a suspenseful game full of fireworks whose outcome goes down to the final play. But the real fireworks happen after the game.