Plot
Teenage filmmaker Eric attempts to document the wannabe lifestyle of Allison Lang and her boyfriend Toby's gang of white upper-class teenagers living in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles. Later that night, Toby's gang goes to a party at Eric's house and Allison performs oral sex on him in his car.
The next day, Allison meets with her father at work to discuss family problems, revealing the virtually nonexistent relationship she has with her parents. Afterward, she and her friends drive downtown into East Los Angeles and buy marijuana from a Mexican drug dealer Hector and his crew. Toby believes that Hector did not sell him enough for what he paid, and attempts to confront him; Hector pulls a gun on him, humiliating him in front of his friends but lets him go when Allison pleads.
The next night, Allison and her girlfriends return to Hector and his crew's location and attend a party with them. Hector informs Allison of a motel where his crew regularly party, and invites her to stop by.
Allison meets up with Hector another day, and he shows her around his neighborhood and talks about his lifestyle. His tour abruptly ends when the police arrive on a drug bust. Allison winds up being arrested with the other present gang members, but is let off the hook. The experience only serves to increase her fascination with the inner-city lifestyle. The night after her release, Allison and her best friend Emily head downtown to hang out with Hector's crew at the motel.
There, Allison and Emily ask Hector if they can join his crew. Hector informs them of their initiation; to join the gang, the two must roll a dice; the number they roll corresponds to the number of gang members they must have sex with.
Allison rolls a one; Emily rolls a three. Hector and Allison pair off, but Allison has second thoughts, refuses, and is thrown out of the room when she tries to get Emily to leave with her. Emily eagerly engages in sex with Hector. Hector signals the other gang members to join. When two of them have sex with her at once, Emily becomes panicked and starts to cry. Allison runs into the room and Emily collapses and cries in her arms. The three men leave the room, angry.
The next day, Allison returns to the motel and confronts Hector, but he responds that he only did what she and Emily had asked him to do. He notes that there is nothing real about her, calling her a poser.
The same day Emily is shown at a police station accusing Hector and his crew of gang rape. Allison is brought in for questioning, but claims to know nothing about a rape. Hector is arrested, and members of his crew vow to seek out and silence Allison and Emily, but wind up getting lost in Bel-Air. Meanwhile, Toby and his gang are posing with guns in front of Eric and his video camera, making clear their intent to seek revenge on Hector's crew. Eric shows Allison the footage, and Allison calls Toby and makes an ill-fated attempt to convince him that there was no rape and what he is doing is foolish.
Allison informs Emily of what Toby plans to do and reveals to Emily's parents the events at the motel. This initially upsets Emily to the point of nearly attempting suicide, but the two reconcile. Meanwhile, Toby and his gang arrive at Hector's motel and bust in violently, but only succeed in frightening a group of Latina women with a baby. Unable to shoot, Toby and his friends leave.
On their drive home, the gang passes the SUV of Hector's crew that had been looking for Allison and Emily. The two gangs exchange looks, and the screen fades to black. After a few seconds the sounds of tires squealing, people shouting and a gunshot are heard.
The film ends by showing Allison’s segment of Eric’s footage for a third time.
