High-school student Grover Beindorf and his younger sister Stacy decide that their parents, Ned and Janet, are acting childishly when they decide to get divorced after eighteen years of marriage, so they lock them up in the basement until they can sort out their problems. Their schoolmates decide to do the same with their parents to solve their respective problems.
Desperate to keep their various parents from getting divorced, a group of teenagers kidnaps them and holds them prisoner in a basement to force them to reconcile.
