It’s 1984 and outside a small-town nightclub, a group of 8th graders gather, grappling with a spate of recent suicides, UFO sightings, their absentee parents, and each other.

Set in rural Pennsylvania, 15-year-old Shaw, a bullied outsider, is trying to cope with his mother’s death and a reunion with his estranged, alcoholic father.

Inspired by true events, a man recounts the summer of ’94, when he and his brother plotted revenge against their abusive father.