17-year-old Telly (Leo Fitzpatrick) and an unnamed 12-year-old girl are
kissing. Telly convinces the girl, who is a virgin, to have sex with him.
Afterwards, he meets his friend, Casper (Justin
Pierce). Telly tells Casper about his sexual experience in graphic
terms. They go inside a local store, and Casper shoplifts a bottle of malt
liquor as Telly distracts the cashier. They then steal a peach,
using the same set-up just outside the store from a sidewalk display.
Looking for drugs and food, they head to their friend Paul's apartment,
though they express dislike of him on the way there. They arrive at
Paul's house, inhale nitrous
oxide out of balloons, talk about sex, and smoke marijuana while watching skating videos on TV. The scene
intercuts with a group of girls, among them Ruby (Rosario Dawson) and Jennie (Chloë Sevigny), talking about sex and contradicting what
the boys say, especially about oral sex.
Ruby and Jennie mention that they were recently tested for STDs at Ruby's request. Ruby's
test is negative, though she has had multiple sexual encounters, many of
them unprotected. Jennie tests positive for HIV. She
claims to have had sex only once, with Telly. Jennie spends the rest of
the film trying to find Telly, who has taken to only having sex with
virgins on the premise that he cannot get STDs this way. Telly and
Casper walk to Telly's house and steal money from Telly's mother. They
go to Washington Square Park and buy a
"dime bag" of marijuana from a Rastafarian. They then meet up with a few
friends, one of whom gives a blunt-rolling tutorial, to talk and smoke. Casper rides
on a skateboard and carelessly bumps into a man (Ellsworth "Cisco"
Davis), who furiously threatens him. He pushes Casper over, but is
struck in the back of the head with a skateboard by Harold (Harold
Hunter), a friend of Telly and Casper's, causing him to collapse.
Many of the other skaters join in, kicking and hitting the man until he
is unconscious. Telly then spits in the man's eye.
Telly and some of the group from the park pick up a 13-year-old girl
named Darcy (Yakira Peguero). She is the younger sister of an
acquaintance and Telly wants to have sex with her because she is a
virgin. He convinces her to go with them to a pool. The other girls
engage in pseudo-lesbian kissing and flirtation, but Darcy is
restrained, though not shocked by the others' behavior. Telly and the
group go to another friend Steven's house to smoke, drink and talk about
sex. Meanwhile, Jennie goes to a rave club called NASA trying to find Telly. She
runs into "Fidget" (Harmony Korine), who gives her a pill: which he refers to as "a euphoric
blockbuster drug that is supposed to make 'special
K' look weak". It turns out to be a depressant. She eventually finds
out that Telly is at what has become a party at Steven's house.
Jennie arrives at the party to discover Telly having sex with Darcy,
exposing her to HIV. Exhausted by her ordeal and with the drugs still
affecting her, Jennie passes out on a couch among the other sleeping
party-goers. A drunken Casper proceeds to rape Jennie. The film ends
with a soliloquy by Telly about how without sex he would
have nothing to live for. The last shot of the film is Casper sitting on
a couch naked as he says, "Jesus Christ, what happened?"