From best-selling author S.E Hinton (The Outsiders, Rumble Fish) and adapted for the screen by Emilio Estevez (Men at Work) comes the tale of Mark (Estevez) and Bryon (Craig Sheffer), two teenage delinquents heading for jail. But when Bryon starts spending time with a new girlfriend, he begins to clean up his act, leaving behind his reckless life. Mark, however, feeling alienated and alone, begins to spin out of control into a downward spiral of drug dealing and random violence. Soon Bryon must risk his new life in order to save his friend from ruining his own future.