Tomomi Nomiya, a tough youngster who loves basketball, gets into a motorcycle accident that paralyzes a girl, then quits the team and leaves school, trying to find a way to alleviate his guilt.
As Togawa and Nomiya work toward their chosen goals, Takahashi is about to discover that his purpose in life has been right in front of him the whole time.
Nomiya's tryouts for the professional basketball team the Tokyo Lightnings has finally arrived and he is giving it all he has, but he worries it will not be enough. Meanwhile, wheelchair basketball is helping Takahashi feel like he is getting his life back.
While Nomiya works toward the goal he has decided on, Takahashi inches his way out of depression and toward recovery, but he finds comfort in unlikely company.
Athlete Kyoharu Togawa, chosen to compete for a spot on Japan's National Wheelchair Basketball Team, looks back over how far he has come since losing a leg to cancer.
After making the basketball team to impress his dream girl, Sakuragi Hanamachi finds himself stuck practicing the basics in the corner of the gym rather than playing with the team. Sick of it all, Sakuragi decides to leave the team--after just one week.
Hanamichi Sakuragi never has any luck asking out the girls at school until Haruko becomes interested in him, but he must join the basketball team in order to impress her.
Suffering life-changing events that leave them in wheelchairs, three young men find their passion for basketball helps ease their pain and brings them closer together.
