The story of 4 characters whose lives intertwine amid the hustle and bustle of the Coney Island amusement park within the Nineteen Fifties: Ginny, an emotionally unstable former actress now working as a waitress in a clam home; Humpty, Ginny’s rough-hewn carousel operator husband; Mickey, a good-looking younger lifeguard who goals of turning into a playwright; and Carolina, Humpty’s long-estranged daughter, who's now hiding out from gangsters at her father’s residence.
