High school senior Luke has dreams of being a pro surfer, but his parents want him to focus on picking a college. When a spot opens on the local surf team, he sees his big chance to prove to them that he can make it as a surfer.

Several friends gather to mourn the loss of a friend, then they quickly become pawns in a macabre game.

A resourceful boy creatively uses poetry to survive when his mother, a disturbed avant garde painter, locks him in a puppet box and builds an art installation around his imprisonment.