"An unassuming character study set to poetic rhythms makes for an empathetic study of Black life, full of resolve."
—Screen International
"It’s a resolutely poetic, at times even golden-hued portrait of lives unafraid to hope amid growing despair."
—Los Angeles Times
In 1992 Chicago, as Michael Jordan solidifies himself as a champion, a story of two young legends in their own right begins. As wide-eyed and imaginative best friends Malik and Eric traverse the city, looking to escape the mundaneness of school and the hardships of growing up in public housing, their unbreakable bond is challenged when tragedy shakes their community just as they are learning to fly.