Heritage Falls

Charlie Fitzpatrick Sr., Charlie Fitzpatrick Jr., who goes by his middle name Evan in not liking to be called Jr., and Markie Fitzpatrick - three generations of Fitzpatrick men - don't understand each other. Beloved by his team members and the fans, Charlie has just taken early retirement from his longtime job as the basketball coach at Stephens County High School, he the winningest coach ever in Georgia state history. Evan has never fit into Charlie's mold of team sports or competition, he forced to try out for the basketball team when he was in high school ultimately to be cut by his father. Owning and operating his own bookstore, a fallback from his failed pursuit of being a novelist, Evan will often use the excuse of needing to do inventory at the store to avoid doing anything with his father. Nineteen year old Markie, back home on a break from college, has just announced that he is dropping out to become a full time musician, which doesn't sit well with Evan in remembering his own heartbreak in failing in his dream and having at least that college education as the fallback. Suggested by the high school's principal, Joe Allen, a former student and basketball team member himself, Charlie ends up giving to Evan for his forty-fourth birthday a weekend outdoor retreat to Heritage Falls for the two of them and Markie, it where Charlie always takes his players for team building for such activities as an obstacle course and a wall scaling, the team members needing to work together to succeed. Joe figures it may be a good opportunity for Charlie to build that rapport with Evan and Evan with Markie as he does with his successful teams. This plan was supported and fostered by the Fitzpatrick women: Laura Fitzpatrick, Charlie's wife/Evan's mother; Heather Fitzpatrick, Evan's wife/Markie's mother; and Harvey Fitzpatrick, Charlie and Laura's daughter who is more a chip off the ol' Charlie block than her older brother. Evan agrees to the retreat kicking and screaming, especially in being a bona fide city boy. This retreat has the potential either to bring the men closer together or tear them apart even further and will be affected if Charlie divulges the reason for his retirement, if the great outdoors gets the better of them and if they open the care package Laura has left for them.