Kelly, a survivor of her troubled adolescent years in small-town America, recalls how her best friend, Jess, and her life have developed since high school. Their stories intertwine as Kelly tells how each of their lives falls apart with drugs and sex. Even being so close, Kelly finds her friend to be distant and to really know her, she has to face and accept the darkest, ugliest part of her own life.

Explore the classic world of Far Away Eyes in explicit and intimate, sometimes ugly, with dark details on the dynamics between two friends in 1970s America.