Ethan, once a tennis prodigy who took the entire United States by storm,
suffered a comminuted fracture in his right knee during a brutal match
two years ago. He never bounced back from the devastating injury, falling
from grace to work as a washed-up, down-on-his-luck coach at a country
club — reduced to fetching balls for club members just to get by.
Lucas, a fast-rising biracial tennis superstar, arrives out of the blue
at the club and adamantly demands that Ethan be his exclusive practice
partner. On the court, Lucas pushes Ethan to confront his long-buried
inner demons through relentlessly intense, almost cruel rallies; off the
court, the two are forced to live under the same roof. Amid the scorching
summer sun, sweat-soaked days, and tipsy evenings on the terrace, the
charged, lingering tension between them ignites into fiery, all-consuming
love.
