Miles Walton, age 17, divides his time between the exciting new world of AOL chat rooms and the movie theater where he works. He bides his time until he can go away to college in Chicago to study filmmaking as he has always dreamed. One morning his father passes away unexpectedly, revealing a secret affair with a local girl, which ate up all of their family savings. Miles can no longer afford to go to college. Miles looks at the few remaining college scholarships, and finds there s only one left in Chicago: to the Men s Volleyball team at Loyola University. Because his high school doesn t have a men s team, Miles tries out for the girl s team.