Phoenix

On her way to a tennis tournament, 13-year-old Robin Brewster witnesses a speeding car accidentally hit her father.
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25 years after the “fatal” accident, Robin accompanies her 16-year-old daughter, Sara, to Phoenix for a national tennis tournament and a visit with Robin’s mother, Wendy. In the Phoenix Airport, Robin runs into Brice Atwood, an old high school boyfriend who she hasn’t spoken with since he abruptly and mysteriously ended their high school romance 22 years before. Robin, in the midst of a divorce, queries Brice, determined to learn the reason for his abrupt departure from her adolescent life. He persistently stonewalls regarding his high school motives but willingly provides details of his life as a bachelor and San Francisco sportscaster on assignment in Arizona.  
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Robin, a strong competitor who hates to lose, still considers Brice walking out on her in high school as a personal loss and senses a long-awaited chance to understand that loss.  Over the course of a week, Robin fails to uncover a satisfactory explanation but her probe provides Robin and Brice an opportunity to rekindle their dormant romance.  
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Robin’s pursuit of Brice, his secret and attraction present dilemmas for Robin with both her daughter, Sara and mother, Wendy who she is staying with in Phoenix during Sara’s tournament. Sara pouts and rebels, a reaction to seeing her nearly divorced mother interested in another man. Wendy’s adamant protests about the time Robin devotes to Brice escalates into angry threats between them.
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Robin’s dogged pursuit of the truth about this two-decade old mystery finally forces Wendy to admit a blackmail of young Brice she orchestrated to keep Robin from losing focus on her tennis. Unable to bare Robin’s disgust after that revelation, Wendy reveals the complete truth that Robin’s father didn’t die in the accident 25 years ago. He survived as a quadriplegic but hid all these years because he never wanted his daughter to see him as anything less than perfect. Wendy confides that after the accident, Robin’s father’s only reason to live was Robin’s tennis. Wendy worried that if Robin lost focus and interest in tennis because of a boyfriend, her father might have nothing to live for.
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Robin’s reunion with her father, the truth and resolution of that loss frees Robin to resolve another loss, Brice.