It is 1947, the year Jackie Robinson breaks major league baseball's colour barrier by playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers, and changes the world. This is the story of that season, as told through the eyes of a difficult, brooding and wounded man named Joseph Burke. Burke, a veteran of WWII, is hired by a Dodgers manager to guard Robinson. While he shadows the baseball hero he must also face some truths of his own, in a world where the wrong associations could prove fatal.