 Aside
from a love for hoops, it would seem that
Lucas and Nathan are two young men with
little in common, but they are bound by
the dark secret that they share the same
father.
Arrogant and assured, Nathan is the star
of the high school basketball team and
hails from a wealthy family. Quiet and
driven, Lucas is the only child of a
single working mom. He is also a
legendary playground basketball player.
After growing up on opposite
sides of the tracks in the same small
town of Tree Hill, North Carolina, the
two boys' lives suddenly collide when a
twist of fate puts Lucas on Nathan's high
school basketball team and the half-brothers
compete, not only for control of the
court, but also for the heart of Nathan's
beautiful girlfriend Peyton Sawyer.
Lucas' transition into Nathan's
world creates an instant love triangle.
Peyton is an intensely private and
sensitive girl. She is a gifted artist,
but for now, she keeps her art hidden
from the world. Although she is Nathan's
girlfriend, she quickly feels a
connection to Lucas. Peyton lost her
mother at a young age and, like Lucas,
she knows the pain of growing up without
a parent. She and Lucas both see the
world from an outsider's point of view.
Nathan is painfully aware of
the rapport between Peyton and Lucas, and
it doesn't take him long to notice that
Lucas' best friend, Haley, is an unusual
and intriguing girl. Because of her close
friendship with Lucas, Haley finds
herself suddenly forced to deal with this
strange new world of wealth and privilege.
While the teenagers struggle
to find their places in the world, the
adults in Tree Hill are dealing with the
residue of decisions they made years ago.
Nathan's father Dan and Lucas' mother
Karen were high school sweethearts. When
Karen became pregnant during their senior
year, she was devastated by Dan's
decision to put his own life and career
first. He went off to college on a
basketball scholarship, leaving Karen
behind to raise their son Lucas alone.
When Dan's dream of a basketball career
didn't work out, he returned to town with
the wife he met in college and his new
son, Nathan. Now a wealthy businessman
and one of the biggest fish in the small
pond of Tree Hill, Dan lives his
basketball dreams through Nathan.
Dan's actions have had a
ripple effect on many people in the town.
While Karen struggled to raise Lucas
without a father, she remained friends
with Dan's older brother Keith. Keith is
Lucas' biological uncle and has served as
his surrogate father over the years. His
connection to Lucas is complicated by his
attraction to Karen, and he is haunted by
the possibility that he and Karen might
have ended up together - and the hope
that they still could. Karen's entire
adult life has been focused on her son,
but now that he's taking his first steps
into a new world, she knows she can't
protect him anymore.
Lucas and Nathan's new rivalry
on and off the court has even brought
back old emotions for the grizzled
basketball coach, Whitey Durham. Whitey
coached Nathan's father, Dan, when he was
the school's star player, and now he is
coaching both of Dan's sons. He knows he
is partly responsible for Dan's decision
to not give up his scholarship when Karen
became pregnant, and he has to juggle
conflicting responsibilities and
loyalties toward the two boys.
Years in the making, a deep
and bitter conflict slowly unfolds as the
two boys struggle to come to terms with
who they really are and a father who has
chosen to live vicariously through one
son, while ignoring the existence of the
other.
One Tree Hill is from show creator Mark
Schwahn, executive producers Mike Tollin,
Brian Robbins, Joe Davola and Ann
Hamilton for Tollin/Robbins Productions
and Warner Bros. Television Production
Inc. |
