Vincent has a crush on Roseanne at school. By night, she contends with a terrible home life: her mother Maggie cheats on her drunken husband Fred. Fred takes out his wrath on his stepdaughter Roseanne when Maggie's infidelity is uncovered. In this contemporary fable partially based on "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Maggie plots her retribution with the support of her boyfriend Jimmy, but Vincent may be the one to help her start a new life.