A woman with Hodgkin’s disease and her young son entangle with and deny her mortality by watching the New York Knicks basketball team play through a losing season on television. A tender filial series of scenes is complicated when the Knicks team captain, whom the little boy adores, steps out of the ecology of the television and into the ailing woman’s life, cajoling her back into her body from a painful place of emotional exile. She tries to teach him Yiddish. Issues between Blacks and Jews are argued over with passion and tenderness both. Finally, after she has accepted her life, however transitory, in a physical body, and he has accepted newly his obligations to himself and his own children, he steps forward and meets the little boy. A lyrical, redemptive drama with really funny parts in it.