Drawing from the notorious real-life events that captivated media attention during the nineteen nineties, this movie portrays a sixteen year-old girl (Noelle Parker) from Long Island who enters into a relationship with Joey Buttafuoco (Ed Marinaro), a thirty-five year-old married man, not far from Jones Beach. A year later, she confronts his wife, Mary Jo (Kathleen Laskey), at her home and shoots her in the side of t…