Arthur Opp weighs 550 pounds and hasn t left his rambling Brooklyn home in a decade.
After nearly two decades of silence, it is Charlene s unexpected phone call to Arthur a.
The link between this unlikely pair is Kel s mother, Charlene, a former student of Arthur s.
Twenty miles away, in Yonkers, seventeen-year-old Kel Keller navigates life as the poor kid in a rich school and pins his hopes on what seems like a promising baseball career if he can untangle himself from his difficult family life.
Arthur Opp weighs 550 pounds and hasn t left his rambling Brooklyn home in a decade