Growing up in Louisiana in the late 1960s, where segregation and prejudice still thrive, two high school football players, one white, one black, become friends, but some changes are too difficult to accept. Louisiana in the late 1960s where segregation and prejudice still thrive, two high-school football players, one white, one black, become friends but find that some changes are too difficult to accept. The plot contains violence and racial slurs.