高級住宅開発地に新しくやって来た、物静かな10歳のデヴォンは、なかなか馴染めない。社交界を這い上がる父親の勧めを無視して、デヴォンはトレントの会社を選ぶ。.
10-year-old Devon Stockard (Mischa Barton) lives in a 'safe' walled suburb of McMansions. She's the only child of Morton (Christopher McDonald) and Clare (Kathleen Quinlan).
Lawn Dog is about a newly moved family in a small up-market rich county town in a guarded - walled neighborhood Devon - a 10 year old girl is sent around to make friends by distributing cookies made at home Unlike the routine - Devon gets to know the poor lawn mower young lad Trent - staying in a vehicle trailer in a forest - and both of them forges an innocent love friendship But things turn ugly because of the unusual friendship and the unfolding of eventsThe story is written by Naomi Wallace and the movie is directed by an Australian director John Duigan (A Masters in Philosophy student)This story is based on the Russian folklore of Baba Yaga220px-Bilibin._Baba_Yaga.
An athletic 21 year-old groundskeeper (Sam Rockwell) lives in a ramshackle trailer in the woods near a gated community and mows the lawns of its wealthy but morally bankrupt occupants. A perceptive 10 year-old girl (Mischa Barton) is drawn to his genuineness because she discerns the hypocrisy of her parents (Christopher McDonald & Kathleen Quinlan) and the fakeness of her new community.