Five students and Coach relate their experiences during the first two months of high school, culminating in a mass shooting on Halloween. Danny's parents yanked him from the art school he was happy at, and he's starting sophomore year at the public high school. Cadence is the wide-eyed bundle of energy he's falling in love with. Brady just wants to go to college, play football, maybe reach the NFL, and turns his aggressions on the new freak. Coach turns a blind eye to his players' crimes, because this year, they're going to State. But they're all on the countdown to an inevitable, horrifying act....