Two MIT students, two martial arts clubs, two different backgrounds. The ex-Navy Asbjorn Lund, still grieving his karate teacher's death, resolves to teach his students how to fall. When he infiltrates the aikido club as a rank beginner, the Aikidoka Sean Gallaway throws him - and Asbjorn falls for Sean, body and heart and spirit. Sean has a lot to learn from the older and more experienced Asbjorn, from dirty street fighting to the beginning of something...