A young screenwriter and a wanna-be director find a backer for their latest movie project... a mafioso who expects his no-talent son to get the leading part.

Cautionary anti-drug film based on a true story about the effects on Jean Stapleton and Arthur Hill when their teenage son (John Putch, Stapleton's real-life son) gets spaced out on a marijuana joint laced with PCP, or "angel dust," and the family is forced to wrestle with the crisis.