
"When Shade's good, she's very good. But when Trudi's bad, she's better."
Nora, a single mother raising two teenage daughters, Shade and Trudi, waits tables at a truck-stop diner in a small New Mexico town. The beautiful and rebellious Trudi drops out of school and gets a job alongside Nora, while the younger Shade whittles away her time at Spanish movie matinees. Their lives are turned upside down when Trudi becomes pregnant and the girls' absent father returns.
Nora

Trudi

Shade

John Evans

Dank

Hamlet

Javier

Darius

Raymond

Thelma

Tanya

Brett
Kim

Hostess

Cecil

Persi
Rocio
Long Haired Boy

Jock
Girl
Bubbly Mother
Mexican Woman
Ivy

Shopkeeper
Trucker
Rock Boy
Young John Evans
Baby Shade
Trudi at 2 Years
Family Puppy
Elvia Rivero
Madre

Padre

Husband

Young Nun
Stylish Man
Gossip

Housewife

Man at Picnic
Self - Poster Model (uncredited)