A troubled teenager moves to a new town, struggling to fit in and desperate for his parents' attention. In his quest for belonging, he starts attending a new high school, where he quickly finds himself amidst conflict and the challenges that come with teenage rebellion. His angst-ridden life leads him to a crucial knife fight with a local bully that escalates into a deadly game of chicken, laying the foundation for his tangled relationships with his peers.

Within the high school's tumultuous social hierarchy, he forges a bond with two other conflicted youths: a vulnerable girl with her own familial struggles and a young boy tormented by bullies due to his sensitive demeanor. As the trio forms an unlikely friendship, they navigate the complex web of adolescence, sexual awakening, and the search for identity, against a backdrop of societal pressure and parental inadequacies.