[1][2][3][4] The story follows the troubled lives of three young men, friends since high school, who have reached breaking points.

He formulates a plan to rob a Dorr's supermarket so he can purchase a boat and escape his problems.

The second fellow works at Dorr's and feels that he is ready to marry a certain waitress at a coffee shop where the three men hang out.

The third is a failed writer who has lied about having a budding literary career in order to persuade a girl to marry him and to impress her father.

They flee, but the dropout's cohorts are captured by the cops while he steals a truck and heads screaming down the road for Mexico.