内森(詹姆斯·拉夫尔提 James Lafferty 饰)是含着金汤匙出生的富家子弟,丰厚的家底和养尊处优的生活让内森的个性高傲又自负,他是学校里的风云人物,同时是校篮球队里的种子选手。 在单亲家庭里长大的卢卡斯(查德·迈克尔·墨瑞 Chad Michael Murray 饰)个性腼腆内向,一直以来默默无闻,所有人都不知道的是,这个不起眼的男孩,和内森竟然是同父异母的兄弟。某日,卢卡斯加入了内森所在的篮球队,一颗篮球将两个陌生又熟悉的男孩紧紧地联系到了一起,他们互为对手又惺惺相惜,在亲情、友情和爱情的漩涡之中上下浮沉。最终,他们能够看透世俗的假象,找到真实的自我吗?This series follows the eventful lives of some high-school kids in Tree Hill, a small but not too quiet town in North Carolina, where the greatest source of pride is the high school basketball team, the Ravens, since living memory coached by old Whitey Durham. Its greatest talent ever was Dan Scott, who now runs a successful car dealership. The present talents are his two sons, Nathan Scott, a beautiful and popular athlete, the absolute star, who was molded and stifled by his proud dad, ambitious Dan Scott, who pushes him harder then even the coach approves of, but rather neglected by his spoiled, impulsive mother Deb, an alcoholic, and Lucas, abandoned at birth with his devoted mother, hard-working café-owner Karen Roe, who grew up with Dan's older but poor brother Keith as substitute father as a social reject, only playing hoops on a public yard in the park with street-kids, his passion being reading; when an incident forces the coach to replace suspended players, Lucas soon proves the revelation, and after a while gets accepted and develops a dynamic, in the long run good relationship with his brother, who turns on his dad. Of course the teenage boys have friends, and especially a confusing series of usually short-loved 'eternal' love affairs with musical talents Peyton and Haley, also a tutor, and irresistible man-eater Brooke...