Roni Somers a young African American woman from Harlem, New York is attending college in North Carolina. She dreams of completing her master's degree and traveling to Egypt to study ancient hieroglyphics. During her last semester in college, she receives a tutoring assignment with Ryan Grant. Ryan comes from the rural area of Virginia on a baseball scholarship. His dream of becoming an architect is in jeopardy if he doesn't pass a class in African American history. When Professor Lincoln assigns him a tutor, he finds out Roni is a beautiful woman and not the male tutor he had been expecting....