A single father juggles his career as an attorney with the care of his five-year-old kid and his job as a high school basketball coach in rural Kansas, where he relocated following his wife's abandonment in Chicago. Just as he is about to form a new connection with a veterinarian's assistant, his ex-wife reappears and wishes to reassert her presence in her husband and son's lives. Along with the romantic strife, he is provided with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to join a prominent firm in Dallas.