Sixteen-year-old Marty is spending the summer on the coast of Maine and a good looking local boy, Michael, is trying to get her attention. Marty is afraid Michael will learn that her mother is an alcoholic.
Thirteen-year-old Layla Jay finds her interest in religion piqued by a handsome visiting preacher staying in her family's home, but when the preacher falls for her mother, Layla is forced to acknowledge her disappointment with God and her reckless mother.
Use of crack, cocaine, alcohol, marijuana, and tobacco by pregnant women can cause serious long term problems for the baby. Drug habits of the father also affect children.