Ten-year-old Harriet (Evan Rachel Wood) lives with her alcoholic mother and promiscuous sister in the family's rundown motel. Harriet desperately wants to escape her difficult life and devises all sorts of outrageous plans to run away... until Ricky (Kevin Bacon) comes to town. Now, she has found a soul mate in Ricky - a mentally challenged man - who shares her desire to get away to a new life. However, everyone around the two are suspicious of this unlikely friendship and are determined to put a stop to it.
Synopsis: A troubled young girl, ignored by her alcoholic mother and preoccupied sister, befriends a mentally handicapped man in the neighborhood. When her mother dies in a car accident, the girl learns a terrible family secret and attempts to run away.