Emma Martin, aka "Little Bo Peep," isn't your average teenage girl. A scrawny runt with glasses and a ponytail, she steals cars for the Deacon-Gonzalez Organization, an uneasy alliance of Bay Area rednecks and Mexican drug dealers who smuggle heroin and hot cars through the Port of Oakland. Night after night, Emma cruises the streets with her hillbilly boyfriend, Arnold Willis, looking for cars on their target list, but the good life comes to an end...