Katie goes out for the night with her girlfriends, and Dave sees her at a local bar. Brendan and Katie are planning to run away together to Las Vegas. Jimmy's 19-year-old daughter, Katie, is secretly dating Brendan Harris, a boy from a family Jimmy despises. She frequently phones him, but never speaks during their calls. Sean's pregnant wife, Lauren, has recently left him. Jimmy and Dave are still neighbors and are now related by marriage. Jimmy is an ex- con running a neighborhood convenience store Sean is a detective with the Massachusetts State Police, and Dave is a blue-collar worker continually haunted by the abduction and rape. Twenty-five years later, the boys are grown and all still live in Boston, although they have drifted apart. Three Irish-American boys, Jimmy Markum, Sean Devine, and Dave Boyle, are playing hockey in a Boston street in 1975, when Dave is kidnapped by two men and sexually abused for four days before managing to escape.
