Jeremy is on the run to nowhere kicked out of yet another boarding school, he faces the unpleasant prospect of another holiday eternity with his manipulative father and drug numbed mother. While Jeremy wanders the barren factory landscape of Newark, New Jersey, he stumbles unexpectedly into Kara's world; a life laden with dead end factory work and her husband Bruce's relentless abuse. After narrowly escaping Bruce's attempted kidnapping, Kara and Jeremy find uncompromised intimacy.