Ken Park focuses on several teenagers and their tormented home lives. Shawn seems to be the most conventional. Tate is brimming with psychotic rage; Claude is habitually harassed by his brutish father and coddled, rather uncomfortably, by his enormously pregnant mother. Peaches looks after her devoutly religious father, but yearns for freedom. They're all rather tight, or so they claim.

A journalist and his girlfriend get pulled in while they investigate a cult whose leader claims to be from the future.

Accompanied by her closeted gay buddy, a promiscuous teenager sets out to find her long-absent father.

The Carlin family moves from small town Ohio to Los Angeles to find life's not the same. And neither are they.