Hines plays a former dental student, Bern Lemley, who had to quit school just before finals because of a car accident that left him in a wheelchair. D'Onofrio plays a former pro football player, Ole Olezniak, who was blinded in a freak accident on the field. Before their accidents, Bern had been a tutor for Ole, and, after quitting his post-accident job as a denture technician, he approaches Ole about teaming up to enter a white-water rafting race on Oregon's Rogue River.—Katherine Smith
Heartwarming buddy tale of two unlikely heroes whose roadtrip adventure aimed at winning a whitewater river race, despite the fact that one is blind and the other wheelchairbound, leads them to the finish line of true friendship.
