Bobby's father picks him up from prison with an 8-ball of coke and a hooker named Mandy and drives them to an Econo Lodge. Bobby doesn’t have sex with Mandy, so his father does instead. The next morning, his father insists on taking Bobby for a drive: first, they go to Gwen’s house—though Gwen doesn’t live there anymore. The father is looking for something, but Bobby tell him it’s not there. They are looking for a diamond Bobby had hidden away. The father is doubtful of Bobby's memory, though, as Bobby had been shot twice in the head the day he hid the diamond. He takes Bobby to an office where he’s running a mail scam, raking in checks from people interested in applying for airport security jobs. He’s planning on quitting the scam once he has the diamond in hand. Bobby runs some errands and buys a cup of Coke and some Krazy Glue. He remembers when he was seventeen, the year he met Gwen, in Sumner, West Virginia. A minor named George Brunda found the diamond was found in a field in Sumner. He and Gwen shot pool with George once, a night that sticks in his brain. Later, Bobby and Gwen broke into Brunda's house and searched for the diamond, even behind the drywall. Finally, they conned their way into the rest home where Brunda's mother lived and found the diamond hidden in her radio. But just then, Brunda had entered into the room. He had left for a confused moment, and then returned with a gun. He fired a bullet out a window, then a bullet into metal, which bounced back and killed his mother. Bobby and Gwen ran from the room to the getaway car. They shared an intimate moment as sirens approached, and that’s when Bobby got shot in the head. In the present, Bobby's father brings him to yet another location to search for the diamond: the fairground. Bobby talks about Gwen—and it dawns on Bobby's father that Bobby knows Gwen is dead, that he knows his father killed him, and that Bobby has spent years in prison making a plan. He asks Bobby whether his gun will fire, and Bobby tells his father that it won’t: he jacked the slide and filled the barrel with Krazy Glue earlier that day. Bobby pulls a knife on his father and tells him to dig up Gwen’s grave with his hands—which he does, over the course of many hours. When he hits bone, Bobby looks upon Gwen’s rotten body in the earth. The diamond lies where her stomach used to be. Bobby hits his father on the head with the shovel until he dies, falling into Gwen’s grave on top of her body. He then sits beside them and weeps until nearly noon.