Working at her parent's roadside gas station and restaurant and struggling to keep her alcoholic father and defeated mother together, Kate escapes from her difficult life through her stories. When Mike, the new boy in town, tries to rob the restaurant, Kate's daredevil fictions suddenly become reality. Fiercely independent and desperately in need of a friend, Mike quickly becomes Kate's closest companion. But when a series of local stores are robbed, Kate's friend Barney suggests that Mike may be responsible. The outbreak of crime peaks when a popular high-school girl is murdered, and Kate's loyalties are divided: will the the truth be uncovered if Kate reveals what she knows about Mike's past?