New York, 1993. Street-smart 17-year-old Lucy Adler is often the only girl on the public basketball courts. Lucy’s inner life is a contradiction. She is by turns quixotic and cynical, insecure and self-possessed, and, despite herself, is in unrequited love with her best friend and pickup teammate, Percy, the rebellious son of a prominent New York family. As Lucy begins to question accepted notions of success, bristling against her own hunger for male approval, she is drawn into the world of a pair of provocative feminist artists living in what remains of New York’s bohemia.