The line between true love and insanity is as thin as a paper cut and just as uncomfortable for the members of a very untraditional American family navigating their way through small town life and relationships in the early 1970s. Seventeen year old Beverly Patterson is discovering that her amorous adventures with Warren, her long-term boyfriend of six weeks, aren’t quite like anything she’s ever read about in magazines or learned from the whispered conversations with her friends in the high school cafeteria. Her parents are still in the process of nailing down their own roles after twenty years of marriage, and her younger siblings Kevin and Mindy were obviously created with the express purpose of ruining her life. With an addled grandmother in a red Camaro who finds what just might pass for love in a very strange package and a backup crew of mad dogs, bad friends and constantly feuding neighbors, it’s going to be a bumpy ride.