On Valentines Day 1993, 17-year-old Bethel High School basketball star Allen Iverson was bowling in Hampton, Va., with five high school friends. It was supposed to be an ordinary evening, but it became a night that defined Iversons young life. A quarrel soon erupted into a brawl pitting Iversons young black friends against a group of white patrons. he fallout from the fight and the handling of the subsequent trial landed the teenager-considered by some the nations best high school athlete-in jail and sharply divided the city along racial lines. Steve James (Hoop Dreams) returns to his hometown of Hampton, where he once played basketball, to take a personal look at this still-disputed incident and examine its impact on Iverson and the shared community.