Broke and desperate for a better future, hard-partying best girlfriends Chloe and Stevie spend the summer after high school graduation doing whatever it takes — selling drugs, running guns into Mexico—to get the cash they need to leave their dead-end desert town by September.
Best friends Chloe and Stevie spent their teenage years fantasizing about escaping their small, depressed Mojave desert town. Raised by single moms who tried but just couldn’t give them the financial or emotional support they needed, they’ve always relied on each other and found a way to get what they want. When they put their energies together towards something, it’s almost like they can make magic happen. Now that they’ve graduated from high school, they want to get the hell out of dodge.
Their plan — move to LA at the end of the summer, where Stevie’s going to UCLA on a grant and Chloe’s going to manifest her way to fame. They’ll spend the summer working crap jobs to save up for an apartment — at least when they’re not partying or breaking into the bougie new Airbnbs that have cropped up all over the desert to use their pools.
But when statewide budget cuts cost Stevie her grant, their plan is completely effed. So when they see an opportunity to make some quick and easy cash selling drugs, they take it. Turns out nothing’s easy — they get robbed and end up owing their supplier. Things quickly start to spiral out of control, leading them into a dark underworld where smugglers, cartels, and the U.S. Marine Corps converge.
