Graham was Ian’s cousin. Salt-and-pepper, charming, properly hairy. The kind of older man who should have stayed safely in family photos. Instead he ended up on his knees in the hallway, mouth open, throat working, every morning. A quiet, permanent, irreversible routine. The older man who fell under charm never got up again. He simply grew older inside the shape made for him. Family to the end.
In a rundown Kansas City apartment, unemployed Mia pays rent with her body. What begins as voyeuristic window shows for neighbor Caleb escalates when landlord Harlan blackmails her with hidden videos. Coerced submission turns into craving—first private, then courtyard, alley, street, bar. Double-teamed under strangers’ phones and headlights, Mia’s addiction deepens: vulnerability becomes power, shame becomes ecstasy. She begs for more exposure, more claims, until surrender is her only identity.
Jessica, a fifteen-year-old cheerleader, wants desperately to go to a party with the older cheerleaders and some of the football players. The ticket of admission is a case of beer, so she decides to hang out in the parking lot of a liquor store, hoping to find someone who will buy the beer for her. Things are not going well, then they get worse when she runs into Sammy and Kyle, two very nasty young men looking for a good time. Their idea of a party is not the same as Jessica's.
A broken family, a rebel daugther, the sexual experimentation, her change of behaviour and the new bonding of the mother and daugther. A romantic saga.