Sisters Sandra and Beth learned early in life that they had no one to depend on but each other. Abandoned by their father, turned away by child protective services and forced to care for their hopelessly addicted mother, Linda, the imaginative and gifted girls sustain themselves on fantasies of a life with the perfect mom. But when Linda makes plans to move the girls in with her lecherous and abusive lover, the girls' situation becomes unbearable. Seeing no other way out, Sandra and Beth recruit their classmates Justin and Ashley to help them plan their mother's murder.