The story of four young friends in New Orleans whose live are pulled in drastically different directions when the enter high school. Meredith, Brandon, Stephen, and Greg, once inseparable, are torn apart by envy, secret passion, and rage. Soon two violent deaths disrupt the core of what they once shared. Five years later the friends are reunited, and, when one of the deaths is discovered to be a murder, secrets unraveled and the casual cruelties of high school develop into acts of violence that threaten the entire city.