Sometimes the person you least expect is just the hero you need. Twenty-one-year-old Hardy ‘Hardly’ Reed is drifting through life. A minimum-wage scare actor at an amusement park, he avoids unnecessary effort and unrealistic ambitions. When he notices two children displaying signs of abuse, he reports the incident to Child Protective Services, but when they fail to take action, he takes it upon himself. The situation is far more dangerous than Hardly expected. The abusive father who has been hurting these children is a lawyer who secretly runs a violent drug-dealing operation. The mother claims she wants to escape with the kids, but Hardly isn’t sure he can trust her. Faced with a different version of himself than he has ever known, Hardly refuses to give up. But his commitment to saving these kids from further harm might end up getting the kids, and Hardly himself, killed.