 Zora Banks (Sanaa Lathan) is a school teacher and aspiring singer hoping to become a successful star while taking a break from heartache. Franklin Swift (Wesley Snipes) is a down-on-his-luck construction worker and not-quite divorced father of two hoping to start his own business. The two meet and fall in love and during the course of the stormy relationship, they both come to some startling conclusions about love and each other.