Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles, California.
High school seniors and best friends, Sonny and Duane, live in a dying Texas town. The handsome Duane is dating a local beauty, while Sonny is having an affair with the coach's wife. As graduation nears and both boys contemplate their futures, Duane eyes the army and Sonny takes over a local business. Each struggles to figure out if he can escape this dead-end town and build a better life somewhere else.
A bounty hunter helps out the wife of a bail-jumper after her child is kidnapped by neo-Nazi types.
An unemployed loafer who spends his time playing pool decides he's ready to look for a job so he can secure his girlfriend's parents' approval for their marriage.
A tale of two hustlers trying to set up a big game.