When eighteen-year-old Carlo "Charlie" Bonarelli picks up the morning paper and reads news of a dead girl found in Highland Park, the sinking feeling in his gut tells him that the events of the previous night weren't just a bad dream.

Ambivalent and slightly adrift, Charlie works part time for a local meat market-when he's not attending classes and mistaking lust for love with the ladies. But a random late-night delivery entangles Charlie with a mysterious stranger in distress, kicking off a chain of events that lands Charlie right in the crosshairs of the police investigation into the...