17-year-old Joshua"J" Cody moves in with his freewheeling relatives into their South California beach town after his mum dies of a heroin overdose. Headed by boot-tough matriarch Janine"Smurf" Cody along with also her hands on Baz, who conducts the company and calls the shots, so the clan also is made up of Pope, the earliest and most dangerous of those Cody boys. The fearless and tough middle boy, craig. And Deran, the distressed, suspicious"baby" of the familyroom.