LOVE IS A DRUG. In 1980 NYC, eighteen-year-old J.J. Buckingham is an uptight trendoid. Working as a mannequin painter and a counter girl, she moonlights as a creature of the nightclubs. J.J. falls for aloof, crazy-talented artist and bicycle messenger X-It. In order to win his love, she succumbs to the dark machinations of drug dealer Marko Voodoo. X-It will love her if she's the queen of underground Manhattan, right? Her plan backfires with horrendous consequences. Can J.J. scrap her way out of a maze of drugs, clubs, and danger before it's too late?