While doing community service at a special needs home, a rebellious teenage girl develops an unlikely friendship with a young mentally handicapped man who lives there.

A story about a young boy’s coming of age, his struggling mother’s psychological state and a mysterious stranger who finds himself in their life.

It is 1973 and the Springwood Police Dept. have just arrested a man they believe to be the notorious child murderer known as the Springwood Slasher.