A teenage boy at a prep school in New England stays at his dorm for the weekend, though most of his classmates are away on vacation. While he writes a letter to his girlfriend in his room, the boy's classmate Crosley approaches and invites him to dinner with Garcia, a wealthy student and the nephew of a famous dictator. Though neither of the boys are friends with Garcia, Crosley explains that he was invited while sitting next to Garcia at lunch and was asked to bring a friend. The boys are picked up in a limousine that night by Garcia and his beautiful twenty-five-year-old stepmother Linda. Crosley suggests the smorgasbord for dinner, though it is usually only attended by football teams or locals looking to binge eat, and it is not the kind of nice restaurant for which Garcia's stepmother is dressed. Nonetheless, Linda, who speaks more Spanish than English, seems to like the idea. When they arrive, Garcia stays in the car and sulks. He is clearly upset for some unknown reason, though Crosley suspects it is about money. Meanwhile, the two boys feast in the restaurant, and the young stepmother watches and smokes a cigarette. At dinner, the student tells Linda about his girlfriend, but he is distracted by the young woman's beauty and soon grows embarrassed. After the boys finish eating and they all leave, Linda gives them each a hundred-dollar bill and sends them back to their dorms. Back at school, the boys suspect the dinner invitation had something to do with a fight between Garcia and his stepmother and that they were now somehow in the middle of this family feud. Crosley admits that he has a bad reputation because he was caught stealing. The boys feel sick from eating too much and discuss the strange events of the night. Crosley tells his classmate that he plans to spend the hundred dollars on a prostitute, and the other boy considers doing the same. He hopes it will make his first time having sex with his girlfriend Jane less awkward. A while later, when the boy finally returns home and sleeps with Jane, she ends things between them. She explains that she can tell he doesn't love her. The boy was not entirely aware of this, but after he hears it, he decides it is true.