An updated 21st-century version of Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights" set in modern day Malibu, California, where the wealthy Earnshaw family adopts troubled teenager Heath. The Earnshaws' teenage daughter Cathy falls madly in love with him, embittering her rich friend Eddie and the rest of their exclusive, upscale community. Wrapped up in her exciting fling, Cathy is blind to the dangerous side of Heath until it's too late.