Rebellious and witty, Erica Vandross is a 17-year-old girl who lives with her single mother Laurie and her new boyfriend Bob in the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles. When Bob’s mentally unbalanced son, Luke, arrives from rehab to live with the family, Erica is overwhelmed. With Luke and his buddies Kala and Claudine in tow, Erica decides to act and exposes a dark secret of Will, a high school teacher, with very dangerous results, because it will become an important catalyst for adolescents to mature in unexpected and unpredictable ways.