SYNOPSIS:
Left to rely on her new stepfather for the first time, fourteen-year old Miranda overcomes her skepticism when he unexpectedly shows up in time to cheer her on to win the championship lacrosse game.

Since her parents' recent divorce, Miranda has become a bit of an outsider at her private girls school where most of her classmates enjoy sprawling green lawns and nice cars. Miranda now lives with her mother and stepfather, Frank, in Baltimore's Highlandtown, a neighborhood of aluminum-sided row houses and cement backyards. Miranda and her mother are Frank's first family and he's just getting used to having the two women living in his own house. A craftsman and refurbisher, he tries to fix the place up to please them. Miranda still doesn't know that she will be staying with them rather than with her father and is very defensive of any kindness Frank shows her.

On this day, Miranda's mother can't take her to school and she asks Frank to take Miranda to the lacrosse game. She specifically asks him "to try and get along" with Miranda who makes this very difficult. But when Miranda wants someone there to support her and she realizes that her real parents aren't coming, she must overcome her stubbornness to get Frank to come see her play. Frank, having no clue about lacrosse, feels out of place amongst the other parents, but manages to get swept up in the drama of the game and in Miranda's playing.

WHOOSH depicts the half-degree of warming in an awkward relationship between stepfather and stepdaughter as they try to figure out how to live together.