sentences:  The film follows a teenage boy, his young brother, and a new-to-town teenage girl as they try to find a marionette from a local television show which has been stolen and held for ransom.Meanwhile, the brothers' father struggles with alcoholism and their mother tries to hold her marriage together.The film is based on a real event that occurred in 1968 in Billings, Montana, the hometown of screenwriter T. J. Lynch.