Two young girls, Barbara McKay and Susan Chapman, come from broken homes and broken dreams. Where chaos and despair is the rule and love the exception and their only escape is each other. Together they cling to life in a fantasy of heroes and heroines in a small California coast town. In the land of Surf, Sand and Sun, they are best friends on their own and causing trouble wherever they can. Precocious and street wise, nothing scares them in a town filled with tourists ripe for the picking, tanned and muscled surfers to flirt with, big blue waves to ride and all the frozen chocolate bananas you can eat. It's 1966, a time of youthful rebellion and exciting new discoveries.
Happy in their make-believe world, the girls suddenly discover a dark chasm and fall into a nightmare from which there is no escape. Frank Roberts, a demented killer, shatters their world, as he stalks them, killing their friends along the way. Brad Lewis, a mysterious stranger who becomes their friend, holds a secret that could either save their lives or destroy them all.
In the middle of all the murder and deception the girls are faced with the reality that they are on their own and will never survive unless they find the killer first. It's time to go on the offensive. The special bond between them, their deep sense of loyalty and their faith in one another could be crucial to their survival.