Welcome to the dusty little Texas town of Thalia. A sixteen, Sonny Crawford is naive -- until he meets a desperately lonely woman of forty. His best friend, Duane, is a bully -- but hopelessly in love with the prettiest, richest girl around. In the early 1950's, Sonny and Duanae act out a poignant drama of adolescence -- the restless boredom, the bouts of beer-drinking, the secret trips to Mexico in search of prostitutes, the erotic fantasies so powerful that, finally, they have to explode.
