At the start of his senior year in high school, Morgan#39;s father has lost his company, so the family moves from Connecticut, where they#39;ve been in the yacht club, to an apartment in the San Fernando Valley Morgan has grown up in the shadow of his highachieving older brother, and he seems to have a knack for getting into trouble He also has a stubborn streak, so when he finds himself attracted to Frankie, the girlfriend of the leader of a local gang of youthful thugs, he can#39;t stop himself from pushing her for a relationship The thug thinks of Frankie as his property and sees the cool, urbane Morgan as dead meat Is this a struggle to the death,