At 18, Diana has a chip on her shoulder; she's close to expulsion from high
school for fighting, her mother is dead, her dad is surly, the popular girls at
school set her teeth on edge, she knows men can cause pain. When she
picks up her younger brother at a Brooklyn gym where he boxes to please
his father, she decides she wants to train. Hector, a coach, reluctantly
agrees to teach her. It's soon clear to him that Diana has talent; he pushes
her. She spends time with another young fighter, Adrian, who has a
girlfriend,
but Diana intrigues him and stirs real feelings he tries to articulate. She, too,
must accommodate her toughness and ironic detachment to her feelings for
him.