Thinking she is at home alone for the day, a mother fantasizing while she does some work in the kitchen attacts an unknown stranger to initiate an erotic encouter she never imagined.
To help her divorced mother pay bills, a young teen lets herself be photographed in sexual positions for money by the next door neighbor. She enjoys sex and posing with him so much that she eventually brings her girlfriend, brother and mother in on the fun.
Ariel ("A") hated her name, and she didn't fit in at high school. Parentless, her grandmother, Lucy, raised her. A convinced Lucy to date Claudia, but disaster struck when Claudia's ex spirited her daughter to TX, leaving only Ben, her son. A and Lucy supported Claudia & Ben, found them a lawyer, and become their lovers. A intervened in an attempted rape, thwarted by the store clerk, a retired marine. After their junior prom, Ben was kidnapped, with A to the rescue.
Having been told by an aging woman, about how she kept her son from going down the wrong path in life, Judy wonders if it is the cure for the directions her own child is taking.