In the summer of 1986, delivering Chinese food for a restaurant named Chop Suey Huey's, a college kid is swept up in a murder mystery after he and his friends expose the plot to build resort hotels on the Federally protected Assateague Island, just across the Inlet to the south, and uproot the Wild Ponies living there since the 1600's, while they were out surfing one hot and humid afternoon in late August.