When Kirk, a top roller-blader, discovers that he has bone cancer  in his leg, his pleasant affluent  life is shattered.  Even though amputation provides the best chance for survival; to him,  losing skating means the end of life. His friends cannot  cope with his condition, but his hospital isolation is relieved by Marty -  a street kid survivor who was found dying of leukemia.  Marty bullies, taunts, and challenges Kirk, until he  begins to climb out of his depression. Marty seems afraid of  nothing and, knowing she will die, wants to experience  everything.