The Problem Children follows the lives of three siblings: Steve, the spiteful, selfish brother, Mike, the handsome, intelligent brother, and Sam, their lively, determined sister. One brother murders their father, steals from the family business, and arranges for someone else to scar his brother's face. The other brother is a computer hacker who often breaks the law by getting into school, bank, and police databases (most of the time with righteous results). And Sam is – accidentally, peripherally, and extremely regretfully – connected to two deaths.