En 1966, dans la petite ville de Tulsa en Oklahoma. Ponyboy, Sodapop et Darrel appartiennent à la bande des Greasers, des jeunes délinquants issus des quartiers défavorisés. Leurs rivaux sont les Socs, des fils de bourgeois. Suite à une bagarre violente, Ponyboy et Johnny tentent d'échapper à la police.
April has a problem. Whenever she gets anything like passionate with a guy all sorts of things seem to spontaneously combust. The only men she meets more then once are firefighters. Actually, it's Mom's way of trying to keep her little girl to herself, but new boyfriend Andy is having none of such nonsense. So the heat's on. Unfortunately it's Fluffy the cat who keeps getting caught in the middle.