pissing match

Barlow boasts all of what a small New England town has to offer -- the best and worst of human nature. Deceit, selfishness, envy, and dysfunction make interesting neighbors, unless you are a young woman of uncommon integrity and fortitude. Kansas Delano, fourteen-going-on-forty, is unwittingly at the center of an emotional wrestling match between her entrepreneurial parents, Vince and Natalee. A nagging suspicion of infidelity and a single act of violence drive the parents to opposite ends of their businesses' shared parking lot, creating a literal fault line in the family's life. The ensuing restraining order sends her apathetic brother to his father's pizza parlor and ropes Kansas into servitude in her mother's coffee shop. From her perch at the drive-thru window (and in full view of her estranged spouse), Natalee plays to an admiring crowd of divorcees, dilettantes and dirt-bags but her eye is on one prospect, Dane Olmes. She likes her men the way she brews her coffee - rich and robust. Problem is, Dane likes to sample many flavors and leans towards the exotic. In the midst of chaos, Kansas wages her own struggle to better define faith and fairness, and rectify the injustice of those who should be her mentors rather than her misery. Ignoring the local gossipers and leaning hard on new friendships that come from two unlikely places, she musters the grit and grace to challenge the misguided adults in her life in the hope of derailing their march toward self-destruction.