Disappointed when he does not get the MTV production deal he wants, high school senior Eddy leaves his girlfriend and takes a road trip to find the mother who has left him and his younger stepbrother, who has taken a bit part in a television show.
While on a brief vacation in Key West, sixteen-year-old Annie and her stepbrother Nick do an internet search that inadvertently involves them in a dangerous murder mystery.
In Iowa in the 1970s, twelve-year-old Tex overcomes his self-consciousness about his deformed right hand to take baseball lessons from his stepfather and his tomboy stepsister, who harbors a dark secret.