The girl finds her baby brother in the oven of their mother’s house. The girl thinks about her mother once swore never to put him in the oven, though the girl knows she’s a liar, so she has routinely visited daily to look out for him. The girl then tells her friend that she found him, after which they try to scour the house for baby formula. The girl tells her that it’s probably in her mother’s bedroom, which they find to be a disgusting mess once they head inside. Underneath the bed, where the baby formula is presumed to be, they see cans of it alongside a dead pitbull. They decide to leave without it.

Outside, the girl proposes that they take a bus to the motel, but her friend says no. Instead, they decide to run to it as fast as they can. The friend likes running because she knows that no one dangerous will ever catch them when they do. Eventually, they get into the motel but soon decide that they need to go get baby formula. Again, they run as fast as they can to a grocery store. There, both girls grab what they need and chat up some of the staff. Both of them then run away, in their respective directions, and soon catch up at the motel.

At the motel, the girl ponders her little brother, how much whiter she looks compared to her and her mother. She wonders about who his dad is, how her mother never told her, though she reckons it’s a teacher at her old school, as her mother visited it often back then. She thinks about how she’s often had to step in as a mother figure to her little brother due to their mother’s absence. Together, the girl and her friend use the baby formula to feed him. Contemplating their next moves, they think about all the school they’re missing, how they want to go to the beach to take the edge off of things. The girl attends to their supplies: the stolen diapers, the loaded gun they have, the baseball bat for self-defense. They realize their favors are running low: all they have is an auntie and a perverted boy.

The girl remembers how she once tried to call a social worker on her mother to take their little brother away. When the social worker gets to their house, however, the girl has a change of heart, and both her and her mother persuade the social worker that there isn’t a Child Protective Services case to be had. Afterward, the mother beats the girl.

Now, at the motel, the girl and her friend see headlights coming through the windows. It’s the perverted boy, who has come to visit much earlier than expected. He is let inside and asks a few questions about the little brother before focusing her attention on the friend, who he has come to see. He tries to force himself on her while telling the girl to take the baby into the bathroom for the time being, which she does. In the bathroom, she tries to console the baby while hearing the sound of her friend struggling outside.

With her gun, the girl heads out of the bathroom and considers shooting him. However, she decides to take the nearby bat and hit him with it instead. The perverted man is still breathing but unconscious. The two girls take his car keys and decide to pay the girl’s aunt a visit. They say they’ll figure it out as they go.