Carisa Glucksman

A group of bored, disaffected New York City teenagers spend a day skating, smoking, drinking, partying, deflowering virgins, and getting into fights.

Teenagers Solomon and Tummler kill time in Xenia, Ohio, a small town that has never recovered from the tornado that ravaged the community in the 1970s.

Eric, an intensely nihilistic yet charismatic youth, manipulates four other teen-aged misfits into a "chance" meeting at 7-Teen Sips, a local coffee shop.