In 1973, Buddy Miley, a seventeen-year-old star high school quarterback from a suburb of Philadelphia, played a fatal option that would leave him paralyzed from the neck down, and leave his devoted younger brother Jimmy with the guilt that it should have been him.

Now a quadriplegic, and in the care of his mother, “Saint Rosemarie,” as Buddy would call her, Buddy struggles to redefine who he is from the neck up. Meanwhile, Jimmy is drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers, and accepts an offer to play professional baseball, only to throw it all away because he could not leave his brother’s side.

Believing that he doesn’t deserve an opportunity that his brother could never have, Jimmy heads home to be with the one who matters most to him, his brother Buddy.

The film begins amid the backdrop of the brothers’ youth, and mutual successes in sports, but the focus is on the last eight months of their lives together in 1996, when Buddy realized that he could no longer deal with the disappointment of false hope for medical advances to help him walk again.

He also didn’t want his mother and brother to have to care for him their entire lives, and wished for them to have a life of their own.

After twenty-three years of excruciating pain, it only took seven months for the brothers to find a solution: Dr. Jack Kevorkian.

Buddy was ready to die, and the only person who had the courage to honor his wish to end his life was his brother Jimmy.

The brothers had to keep their plan a secret, even from their mother.

In a small Detroit motel room, Buddy and Jimmy waited, for what seemed like an eternity, for Dr. Kevorkian to arrive. Unable to regulate his body temperature, Buddy became very cold.

To keep him warm, Jimmy laid his warm body on top of Buddy, and with a final kiss on his brother’s lips, said a tearful goodbye to the one person he had sacrificed everything for, just as Dr. Kevorkian entered the room.

The story chronicles intimate details of Buddy’s life that have never been told before, as well as the life-changing decisions made by Buddy and Jimmy, with the help of Jimmy’s girlfriend Lisa, the only one who could provide the strength and courage required to make Buddy’s last wish a reality.