 Caroline Larkin is a new teenage girl in town from a poor working-class family in Los Angels who wants to be accepted into a local high school clique. So, she lies to the snobbish girls of the group about seducing Eddie whom she develops a crush on. But Caroline s domineering, overprotective father has Eddie arrested for statutory rape after learning about Caroline s so-called score. Meanwhile, Eric Turner is a former Baywatch lifeguard and Mitch s old friend who was the best of the team, until he lost his job after an accident which injured his back and confined him to a wheelchair. The paraplegic Turner also wants to reconcile his lost relationship with the Austrialian lifeguard Megan whom be pushed away along with everyone else that tried to comfort him over his disablement.