In the summer of 1969, cash-strapped Tracy Cross (Hawn) must support her 12-year-old son Chris (David Arnott) by working as a dancer in a sleazy Key West bar. Chris supplements the family's income by making local deliveries. But when his activities drag him deeper and deeper into a dangerous world of crime, Tracy must risk everything to save him.
A 12 year-old boy abandoned by his father, a shell-shocked Vietnam vet, tries to keep his mother from earning a living stripping and waiting tables through drug trafficking.