Budding teenage basketball sensation, Joseph Miller, is murdered on a basketball court in the back of a park in Harlem one hot summer afternoon. The police are unable to solve the crime and the one person who witnessed the killing has her own reasons for not coming forward. As time goes by each of the remaining Miller family members grow more and more frustrated with the police's inability to come up with a lead until finally they each secretly decide to take matters into their own hands. There is Joey's straight-laced and guilt-ridden older brother, Monterey, who can't forgive himself for not being there when his brother was killed; along with his father, Jonathan, a mellowed, streetwise, old school brother who is trying desperately not to resort to his old ways; and last but not least Joey's former FBI Agent of a mother, Quiara, whose past is the key to the present. As their investigations proceed, they each get closer and closer to finding out who the killer is and no one has any way of knowing that learning the identity of the murderer will change all of their lives forever