All the residents of Alice Lange’s neighborhood, a golden enclave in a sunny climate, are proud to know her. She’s expected to be crowned Homecoming Queen, apply to the right college where she’ll meet the right husband, and return to this neighborhood to raise perfect children. Instead, just before Homecoming, she commits an act of vandalism, then disappears, following a magnetic man named Wesley to his bungalow in another part of the state, where he promises, Alice can be her true self, shedding the shackles of suburban conformity. Once there, however, she finds that he already lives with four other young women, and that she’s expected to fall in line, cooking and taking care of the house with them, while they all prepare for the time when the world will wake up and they’ll have to head to the desert to start anew. But as the petty grievances among the girls combine with confusing messages from the enigmatic Wesley, the bungalow starts to feel like a pressure cooker—until one day, they reach the point of no return.