Going home is never easy.
Hard Luck tells the story of Trevor "Lucky" O'Donnell, an explosive yet charismatic young man who has spent seven years in the State Mental Hospital for a crime committed while protecting his friend Eric (Matt Faber). The story opens with Lucky's childhood sweetheart, Sheryl (Renee Humphrey), visiting him at the hospital for the first time in seven years. She is there to tell him that she is now married, and that his best friend and her brother Eric is dying of cancer. With only 88 days before his release, Lucky escapes from the hospital to his hometown of Gold Beach, Oregon. There he finds a despaired Eric lying in a hospital room waiting to die. Lucky convinces him to go on one more visit to an island in Lakeside, Oregon where the three of them spent the best summers of their lives. They make one more stop, picking up a reluctant Sheryl, who is torn between joining her brother and Lucky, whom she "married" in childhood, or remaining with her husband, Matt (Darrell Bryan). Matters are further complicated by the fact that both Matt and Sheryl’s father Lou (Ron Gilbert) are in the police force. Matt and Lou pursue the three friends on their journey, unsure what they’ll do when they find them.
Everything comes together on the island, where three lifelong friends rediscover friendship, passion, and strength in tragedy.
