p 　　At the start of his senior year in high school, Morgan 三九 s father has lost his company, so the family moves from Connecticut, where they 三九 ve been in the yacht club, to an apartment in the San Fernando Valley Morgan has grown up in the shadow of his high-achieving older brother, and he seems to have a knack for getting into trouble He also has a stubborn streak, so when he finds himself attracted to Frankie, the girlfriend of the leader of a local gang of youthful thugs, he can 三九 t stop himself from pushing her for a relationship The thug thinks of Frankie as his property and sees the cool, urbane Morgan as dead meat Is this a struggle to the death p