End of summer, Los Angeles, 1967. Jude is 15, new in town and new at school. He's hoping to fit in, but he's about to discover sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll, and the dark and intricate web that connects hippies and hookers, pushers and pimps, and families and their flaws. And along the way he'll find love and death. This is coming of age, Sixties style.