After a short prologue that hints of parental abuse, fraternal twins Rosie and Violet survive a car crash in which their parents are killed.

Not sticking around to deal with the authorities, they determine to make their way to Kentucky and shortly begin to fancy themselves as "runaway outlaws".

But their travels are cut short when they hide out in the back of a young guy's truck and are unwittingly taken to a local military base, where the disheveled Pete (Gordon Currie) somewhat implausibly does odd jobs. One of his first, in a grotesquely awkward scene witnessed by the girls, is servicing a horny, lonely lady, whom Karen Lynn Gorney plays like a trailer park Mae West.