Dumb Luck

the long version

On his 18th birthday, Brandon pick up a lottery ticket and discovers he's won three million dollars. Suddenly everyone's his good friend, and his rejoice in anticipating all that this sudden bonanza will buy them. The school's hottest girl becomes Brandon's coach in this new unaccustomed life he has to adapt to. His old friend Kayla realizes their friendship is withering, and Brandon doesn't have the capacity to do much about that. Plunged into a world that is completely new to him, Brandon flounders and eventually is brought down in disgrace. THere is no happy ending for Brandon, just a solemn understanding that he cannot recover his old life and needs to find the integrity to map out a new one.