In 1963, liberal-minded and reckless Lydia Callahan is raising her 14-year-old son, Sam. Lydia's father, a prominent local businessman, is running for governor of North Carolina, and does not want Lydia and Sam in his way, so the two are banished from North Carolina. They travel across the country and settle in Wyoming, where Lydia only wants to have a good time and refuses to allow Sam to call her "mom." Sam soon finds out that he is one of only two students in Gro Vont High School who read. The other one is Maurey, a girl at the same age as Sam who wants to learn about sex. Consequent to their mutual discoveries, Maurey becomes pregnant. Maurey decides to have an abortion in a distant hospital, and by accident, runs into her mother and the baseball coach who is also there with the same intent. Maurey moves to Lydia's and Sam's house, since her father banishes her from his house. Meanwhile, Hank Elkrunner, a Blackfoot, falls for the feckless Lydia, while her dictatorial dad keeps tabs on them all from afar. During tea time, Maurey and Sam during a conversation talk about them, soon afterwards he would become boyfriend and girlfriend. Later on while Maurey and Sam we’re on the underwear at their Sam’s bedroom, Maurey Gels Sam to strip down off, but he asks to tell her to go first in her top then Maurey did then she tell Sam to strip down but Sam asks Maurey but she tells them to do it and Sam did he removes his bottom underwear down and so Maurey tells down that he’s going to be bigger and Sam looks down at his private part and covers himself up and Sam thinks he has to do things to this and this Maurey removes her bottom underwear down and later on, when the underwear are removed leaving down naked in privacy, so Maurey tells Sam about it and yet she leans on and Maurey sorry to Sam. In the end, Maurey decides not to have an abortion and keeps the baby, a little girl named Shannon. After being threatened to be financially cut off unless she breaks up with Hank, and lets Sam go toMilitary School, Lydia decides to stay with Hank, and takes a job at the local diner. In addition, Hank sells his trailer and moves in with Sam and Lydia, along with Maurey and Shannon who decide to permanently move in. The film ends with Sam finishing the flashback for the story, with Shannon nearby. Throughout the movie, Sam has many dream fantasies which star Drew Barrymore as the subject of his fantasies.
