| Director | Chike, Chike Ozah, Coodie, Coodie Simmons |
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This film documents the November 1984 death of Wilson, who was regarded as the best basketball player in the country, but was shot the day before his senior season of high school basketball was to begin and died the next morning. The film documents the cultural ripple effects of his life and death. It documents the contemporaneous impact of the death on those closest to Wilson, such as Anderson, and the long-run influence of his death on Chicago's youth, such as Parker.
Billy Moore, the young man who fired the shots that killed Wilson, also appears in the film to give what he claimed was the first time he got a chance to tell his side of the story. Others who appear include Erica Murphy, who was friends with both Moore and Wilson and who was there when the shooting took place; Sonny Vaccaro, who ran the camp where Wilson impressed the observers enough to be ranked top in the nation; Wilson's brothers Curtis Glenn, Anthony Wilson, and Jeffrey Wilson, rapper Common and singer R. Kelly, both of whom grew up with Wilson; WMAQ-TV's Warner Saunders, who was one of the first to receive news of the shooting; Kenneth Malatesta, the Cook County prosecutor who tried the case against Moore; and Isaiah Gant, Moore's attorney. Jetun Rush, Wilson's girlfriend and mother of his child, was contacted but declined to take part.