Sixteen-year-old Sydney Reilly has a bad feeling about leaving her friends in Seattle at the end of the school year and spending the summer with her famous mother Lila Shore, and her mother's criminal boyfriend Jake Antonetti, in San Francisco. Sydney doesn't trust Jake as soon as she meets him. She also discovers other men leering at her in town and escapes to the beach with Jake's dog, Max. There she meets a boy named Nicco and the two feel an instant attraction. But things between Jake and Syd's mother deteriorate, and soon Syd finds herself deep in dangerous territory.