When seventeen-year-old Valerie runs away to New York, she s trying to escape a life that has utterly betrayed her. Sporting a new identity, she takes up with a gang of squatters who live in the city s labyrinthine subway system. But there s something eerily beguiling about Val s new friends that sets her on edge.
A bored suburban housewife, seeking adventure to her life, accidentally gets hit on the head, wakes up with amnesia, and is mistaken for a free-spirited New York City drifter named Susan.