Aspiring musician Cornelius "Corn" Denton and his materialistic older sister Rita are constantly at each other's throats. When their mother sends them on an errand to pick up some benches for the local church, a skirmish between the two over Corn's harmonica playing distracts Rita from the road and they run over a goat. At first, they are less concerned with "bad juju" over killing an animal - which they pitch into the ocean tied to a rock - than fixing the truck's front fender and bent hood. When even the "family discount" is more than they can manage, Corn and Rita decide to scrape up the amount by retrieving the goat. As they venture across town selling off the meat and the skin and pawning bartered goods, the siblings clash and often sabotage themselves but soon find themselves in danger from their policeman uncle who has been set after them by their mother and from the local gangster who is looking for his missing goat. While not exactly a coming-of-age tale since the two young characters attribute their misadventures not to their reluctance to take responsibility but to simple bad luck, BAD LUCKY GOAT remains an enchanting comedy because the sibling bonding is moving and one feels they these characters have more time to grow up.