Seven-year-old Joey lives in New York, loves horses and would like to be a cowboy. When he is alone with his brother Lennie for a day, Lennie plots a prank. Joey believes he has killed Lennie and flees. With six dollars in his pocket, he ends up stranded alone in Coney Island. In the amusement park on Brooklyn's South Beach, he rides the carousel, throws cans, eats cotton candy, rides a pony and watches the people around him. That's when pony owner Jay starts to wonder.