Lucy spends her days being tormented and mocked and ghosting through the halls of her high school. At 16, she's come to believe her life will never get better. Her grandmother, Ruth, knows something is wrong, but can’t bridge the gulf between herself and her quiet granddaughter.

Then Jenny arrives--a California transplant so out of place in the rural town that she draws everyone’s eye. That includes Hunter, one of Lucy's regular tormenters, who immediately becomes infatuated with the newcomer. But Jenny has problems of her own—a manipulative ex-boyfriend and a reputation she's trying to escape.
When Lucy nearly drowns during a trip to a forest lake and Jenny saves her, Lucy finds a new reason for living.

But unbeknownst to Lucy, there’s an old evil living in that lake—something that finds a home in Lucy. Soon, howls are being heard from the forest and night, and Lucy dreams of chasing things through the forest; dreams where it’s someone else who’s the prey. Also, her feelings for Jenny grow from fascination to infatuation to something deeper.

Hunter makes the first move on Jenny, and Ruth is hospitalized after a heart attack, which pushes Lucy to embrace the monster growing inside her. The play reaches its climax at the Halloween dance, where Lucy takes revenge on everyone who ever tormented her.

A bloody deconstruction of Little Red Riding Hood, the play takes the familiar elements of werewolves, teen lust, and high school bullies, experimenting with the question of just who’s the victim and who's the monster.