罗伊在幼年时即在打棒球上显示出极高的天赋，父亲对他进行了严格的训练，他的投球威力也在训练中不断提高。19岁那年，父亲去世了。第二年，罗伊告别了他的女朋友艾丽丝，一个人前往芝加哥闯荡。途中，他遇到了当时棒球球坛的头号击球手帕里斯。二人比赛了一场，罗伊取得了胜利。就在曙光展现之时，一个陌生的女人向他开枪射击，受伤后的罗伊一蹶不振，直到16年后参加了战绩不佳的“骑士”队才东山再起，成为一颗耀眼的球星。但好景不长，不久，他迷上了一个漂亮女人，这使他的技术直线下降，他似乎又跌到了人生的低谷。这时，他又见到了他以前的女友艾丽丝，艾丽丝告诉他，她为他生了一个儿子，这使罗伊大受震动，遂振作起来，又一次在重要的比赛中大展奇才，创造出奇迹。

A sassy parrot and a free-spirited librarian upend the well-ordered life of a solitary man. Lyman (Jackson Hurst) is a loner, working the graveyard shift for the Courtesy Patrol. When a green parrot flies in to his trailer he becomes obsessed with finding its owner, which leads him to Fiona(Rachel Nichols). She has been eyeing Lyman from a distance and decides to help with his parrot search, whether he wants her to or not. Along with her basset hound, they set out on a quest to find the bird’s previous owners and Fiona begins to unravel the mysteries of Lyman's past. But when Fiona joins Lyman on his nightly rounds, she witnesses a reality more intense than the romantic version she had envisioned.