Raised by a single mother, a bullied seventeen-year-old girl seeks guidance from her best friend and the girl's older sister.

Terrorized by the school bully, a young man hires the school misfit to be his bodyguard and the two form a fast friendship.

When a new kid named Cory moves to town, he's picked on by the school bullies. To protect himself, he doesn't use his fists - he uses his brain instead. He scares the bullies off by fibbing that his father is a hit man for the mob. Word quickly spreads around and he gets the attention of the real mobsters in town, too.