Emma Fletcher, star of the Ohio State Women's Soccer team, is failing her courses. She is assigned a tutor, Nathan Widlanski, to help her. Nathan is geeky and has a mysterious past. He grew up in an ultra-orthodox sect in Brooklyn.

Emma initially resists allowing him to help her but she eventually gives way to the attraction between them. But there is someone else who has his eye on Emma -- Cole Durbin, the star tight-end of the Buckeyes football team. He wants to have her and he's not about to let a nerdy tutor stand in his way. He's ready to use violence to get what he wants.

Can Nathan and Emma make it work, despite the vast differences between them?