| A documentary film which provides a rare reflection on the intersections between family, sport, and sexuality. It explores a father-daughter relationship through one young girl's experiences in basketball and her struggles to come to terms with her lesbian identity in the face of her father's drinking and the eventual break-up of her family. The film presents ten short vignettes, spanning a fifteen year period, of lessons her father taught her. They chronicle McNabb's earliest memories of the sport of basketball as it was introduced to her at a young age by her ambitious father who lived vicariously through his children; her first young love with a team-mate and subsequent 'discovery' of her lesbianism; her abandonment of basketball when her father abandoned his family; her personal struggles to shed the enduring pain caused by homophobia, alcoholism and shattered dreams; and finally her eventual reclaiming of her passion for basketball, her lesbian past and the things that her father taught her. |
