Terrence Turner turns sixteen and receives a death diagnosis: terminal cancer… Six months to live.

After Terrence’s left arm is amputated in a desperate attempt to stop the rapidly spreading cancer, Terrence’s dreams of playing professional basketball are shattered. 

After a fateful visit from the mysterious hospital Janitor one night, Terrence begins to look at life differently. But The Janitor is not the only angel Terrence meets at Chicago Children’s Hospital. 

Terrence’s first hospital roommate, the beautiful little Nicholas Carter, is also dying. Little Nicholas teaches Terrence all about life, love, and family during their stay together in the hospital. 

But Terrence finds hope a hard currency to find when Nicholas succumbs to his mortal battle with lung cancer.

Terrence’s biological father, who had abandoned Terrence at birth, suddenly arrives back in his life. Terrence begins to spiral. 

With only three months left to live, Terrence receives his “make-a-wish.” He and his best friend, JJ, attend a Chicago Bulls basketball game. Meeting Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, Phil Jackson and the rest of the legendary 1990s Bulls team, Terrence begins to feel the weight of his fading mortality and the limited time he has left. Terrence savors each precious moment he has left. 

Terminal tells the magnificent, miraculous tale of one boy’s struggle to survive in the face of impossible odds as he chases his dream of becoming history’s first one-armed amputee NBA player.