Two starstruck teenage lovers, Jessie Hand, age 19, and his 17-year-old girlfriend, Ashley Dorchak, find themselves on the run after a failed jewelry store holdup. Jessie's older brother, Billy, suggests they head south to Mexico and lay low until things settle down. With the money they have from the holdup, Billy thinks they can live like kings in Mexico. Hot on their trail are nick, the wheelman, the FBI, and a hitman hired by Ashley's mother to kill Jessie and bring her daughter back home.