Two men from different generations and political and religious upbringings have their lives unexpectedly intertwined to disastrous effect. The main character, a 30-year-old aspiring minor league professional baseball executive on the cusp of achieving his childhood dream of a career in the Major Leagues, helps the man's daughter, a 16-year-old pregnant stadium employee. through her life-altering crisis. The young man, the teenage girl, and her older sister, decisions and actions come in conflict with the girls' father and the fundamentalist Christian family's moral code. The father, a prominent and influential community and church leader, uses his power and influence to sabotage the young executive's career and his most intimate personal relationship, while losing the two things most important in his life along the way.