Bored and dissatisfied with her small-town life, 18-year-old Kandy wants and needs a change. She gets her chance when she meets charming drifter Val and they run away together. Needing money, Val agrees to deliver a drug package, but when the deal goes wrong he is arrested. In love, out of luck, and locked up, Val risks everything to escape and find Kandy before she marries another man and he loses her forever. Set amid the heat and funk of New Orleans, Sweet Kandy is a tale of two young lovers looking for a chance.