Former academic Arthur Opp weighs 550 pounds and hasn't left his rambling Brookl
yn home in a decade. Twenty miles away, in Yonkers, seventeen-year-old Kel Kelle
r navigates life as the poor kid in a rich school and pins his hopes on what see
ms like a promising sporting career - if he can untangle himself from his family
drama. The link between this unlikely pair is Kel's mother, Charlene, a former
student of Arthur's.
After nearly two decades of silence, it is Charlene's un
expected phone call to Arthur - a plea for help - that jostles them into action.
