Three boys — Brad, Frank Wheeler, and Kevin — travel from the fictional bedroom suburb of Middleton to
Pittsburgh, bringing money with hopes of seeing a naked woman. They find a prostitute named V who is willing to show her breasts. However, when they decide to head home, they find their bikes have been stolen, leaving them broke and stuck in the city. V speaks with her drug-dealing pimp named Cash and another prostitute, Betty. Cash has been skimming money that he sends to mob collector Waltzer, who in turn steals from his boss Jerry "The Pope". V notices the boys outside in the rain and offers them a ride back home in Cash's car. After they arrive at Frank's house, the car V was using suddenly breaks down, so she goes inside to use the phone. Tom, Frank's father, comes home, and he is surprised to find a woman in the house. Unknown to V, Frank tells Tom that V is a math tutor to Brad. Tom offers to repair her car in a few days when he is free from his science classes at school. With no other option, she accepts Frank's offer to stay in his
tree house without Tom's knowledge. Frank begins a close friendship with V, hoping to set her up with his father. He tells her Tom has no problem with her "job", meaning the tutoring ruse, but she thinks he means her prostitution. V learns from television that Cash has been murdered by Waltzer. She phones Betty, only to discover that Waltzer is looking for her - Cash lied and told him that she stole the money that Cash was stealing from Waltzer. She realizes that he is overhearing the conversation and hangs up. With V's car still broken down, she gets Tom's old bike from the garage and rushes to find him. He is on a field trip to the town's
wetlands, land that he is attempting to save from development. He is unable to repair her car any sooner, but she realizes that she is probably safer in Middleton because Waltzer doesn't know where she is. At school, Frank flunks a biology test about sex education and must give his class an oral presentation. He decides to use V as a mannequin, and through a ruse, distracts his teacher long enough to draw a relatively accurate female reproductive system on her skin-colored bodysuit. Tom and V go on a date, and both realize they are developing feelings for each other. While walking through town on their date, Tom and V run into Kevin's family. V recognizes Kevin's father, who is a client, but he initially says that she has him mixed up with someone else before admitting to remembering her and says that she was a dance teacher. Tom is impressed with how busy V is being a tutor and dance teacher; V then realizes that Frank had lied about Tom knowing about her prostitution. V explains herself to Tom, and their relationship grows. She reveals that her real name is Eve, which she thought was too biblical, so she removed the Es. Kevin's father unwittingly calls her home phone number, which he had in his pocket notebook, in an attempt to purchase her services again. He talks to Betty, and Waltzer, who happens to be there also, learns from Betty about the trip to Middleton, thus finding out where V is hiding. V is terrified that Waltzer will find her, so she decides to leave town, but attends a school dance to say goodbye to Frank. Waltzer arrives and whilst at the dance both Waltzer and V realize that the stolen money is physically in Cash's car, and a chase ensues, ending in Cash's car blowing up, with Waltzer finally giving up on chasing them as he believes the stolen money has blown up with the car. Anxious about her status and afraid to return to her old job, V goes to Waltzer's boss and relates how he has been cheating him. She asks to be "forgotten" by them. The older crime boss tells her that he'll take care of things and allows her to walk away from prostitution for good. V finds the stolen money in a backpack and uses it to buy the wetlands in Tom's name; it is also revealed that she purchased the ice-cream parlor in town, so she can carry on with her new relationship. ==Cast==