An account of serial killer Richard Ramírez and his rampage in California during the mid-1980s.

At 13 years old and the eldest of three kids, Lane struggles to keep her family together as her iconoclast mother moves without warning through the communes and dusty back woods of Northern California.

An ex-con struggling to readjust to life in his small town forms an intense bond with his former high-school teacher.

While her father is away serving in the military, Sadie battles to preserve his place on the home front when her mother takes an interest in the newest resident at the Shady Plains Trailer Park.