Mid-1990s New York. Patty, Angela, Emma and Nikki are high school seniors and best friends preparing for life after graduation. Their dreams for the future are very different – Angela wants to be a poet, Emma and Nicky are going to college, and Patty is a young mother seeking stability in her child’s life – but the four smart, young women are unwaveringly loyal to each other in a way that only teenagers know how to behave. Their lives are turned completely upside down when Nikki unexpectedly commits suicide after a sexual assault. Grieving, angry, and forced to return to everyday life without satisfying their feelings, the girls must grow up with a new understanding of the patriarchal world they live in.