Plot

Follows Casey and Jonas, two teenagers desperate to escape their broken and abusive homes and examines the desperation of life on the run and the beauty of first love.

Mean Dreams is a thriller about a fifteen-year-old boy who steals a bag of drug money and runs away with the girl he loves while her corrupt cop father hunts them down. This coming-of-age fable brings together the desperation of life on the run and the beauty and wonder of first love.

It is a new town and a new station for Police Sergeant and single dad Wayne Caraway and his teenage daughter Casey, who just moved in next door to the kind-hearted local farm boy Jonas Ford. Inevitably, the two teenagers who are meant for each other will soon bond and Casey will find a brief interval of rest from the abusiveness of her violent alcoholic father, as Jonas escapes from the lengthy and laborious activities of the farm. However, sooner or later the mean nature of Sergeant Wayne will surface, and Jonas, after witnessing a triple homicide in a deal that went horribly wrong, he will find the courage and his only chance to protect Casey and run away to the Autumn backwoods of Ontario. With his daughter gone and almost a million of dollars he killed for it missing, Wayne won't let go that easily the couple of runaways who amateurishly leave a long trail of bread crumbs behind them. Can the innocent youngsters outsmart the persistent Sergeant?—Nick Riganas

When two youngsters meet and fall for each other, they must go on the run from the girl's corrupt father, who also, is the sheriff of the town. The chase proceeds, and where it ends is a mystery for you to discover.