In 1970’s Georgia, a 16-year-old girl runs away from home with a seductive, lowlife dealer, then finds herself abducted by small-time hoods on the road to violence and self-discovery.

SYNOPSIS:

In the suburbs of 1970’s Georgia, flower-power waif HEALY (16) feels like an outsider in her world of manicured lawns and High School days that blur and blend into the heat and haze of weed and fumbling boys. She feels like she doesn’t even recognize herself.

Healy falls in with local drug dealer and charming bad boy CURRY (mid-20’s), who hangs around her school selling grass to the kids. All the girls think he’s hot because he looks like Serpico. He isn’t part of the world from which Healy feels alienated. He’s something different. Exciting.

So, when he tells her he has to leave and asks her to come with him… She can’t think why not, where she is, she’s heading no place.

Grifting to make their way, they go to bars and Curry has Healy pretend to be a hooker to get marks alone in motel rooms so he can burst in with a police badge and rip them off. But they try the scam on the wrong guy, who turns out to be an actual cop, and beats Curry senseless, then rapes Healy.

Hitching a ride to a new town, Curry tries to jack a car, but it’s a complete disaster and he just ends up injured and in the dirt. They move on. Not one to learn from his mistakes, when Curry sees a car idling at a gas station, he has Healy jump into the passenger seat to distract the driver while he sneaks up with a finger gun in a paper bag.

But they’ve blundered into the midst of a hold-up.

The driver in the car is WHITEY (early-20s), a good-looking boy who’s kind but not so bright. And the man with the gun running out of the gas station, and now beating Curry to the ground and jumping into the car, is AL (50’s), a tough guy with a vicious streak.

The car disappears into the distance, Healy inside, leaving Curry a bloody heap on the ground.

Healy struggles, but she’s not able to squirm away. Al, an asshole at the best of times, is all for killing her. But Whitey quickly takes a shine to Healy and acts as her protector. In Whitey, Healy discovers, for the first time in her life, a man over whom she has power.

When Healy finds them a deserted house, Al reluctantly agrees to stay off the road for a while. But with Healy and Whitey falling for each other, Al finds himself eased out and tensions simmer.

Meanwhile, Curry is on the road in pursuit of Healy and following the trail to get her back.

Soon enough, with the new couple playing at making house, Al can’t stand the fact Whitey’s being stolen from him and plots to use the robbery of a local hardware store to take his revenge by framing Whitey to get him out of the way, then taking Healy for himself. For punishment rather than pleasure.

With betrayal on the air and the law close at hand, Healy, Al, Whitey, and Curry are on a collision course.

As Al robs a hardware store, Curry arrives in town and dupes the local Sheriff into gunning down Whitey. Curry goes after Healy, but Al turns up and tries to kill him with a cheese wire. In the ensuing struggle Healy is knocked senseless as blood goes everywhere and the two men fight until Curry is dead. The dying Al drags a groggy Healy to the bedroom, intending to rape her. But she has grabbed Curry’s knife and cuts off Al’s cock.

We finally see Healy on a train, heading someplace, peeling an orange.