When an English teacher learns a former student has gone on a shooting spree, she finds the story he wrote in her class, and begins to wonder if she should have seen the signs of what was to come.

A elementary school gym teacher must think quickly when he and his students hear a gunshot from within the school.

After a school shooting, a teacher and her students struggle to process the trauma and constant fear of death lurking around the corner at any moment. The presence of death looming carries over into the teacher's personal life, including her book club and the friends who attend it.

A boy looks back on the encounters he and his friend had with a troubled, violent classmate who murdered his own father.

A sheriff tries to figure out where the schoolchildren have disappeared to after a shooting.

In a school full of refugees and immigrants in early 2000s America, a teacher shares his traumas with his math class. Meanwhile, a cop tries to prevent a young Vietnamese boy from murdering a fellow student.

After 300,000 teens and young adults commit mass suicide, a student pursuing their PhD investigates what caused the Year of Suicide, forcing them to relive their trauma and navigate the process of healing from so much death.

Four women go their separate ways after a bullied teenager carries out a school shooting.

A schoolteacher at a newly desegregated Southern school agonizes over whether to turn a Black student in for the murder of a white boy in an alley fight, in order to prevent a white mob from murdering the student's friends and family. The Black student explains he didn't commit the murder and only acted in self-defense, but he insists on turning himself in to protect his neighborhood.

A young, optimist white teacher in New York takes a job at an all-Black school, determined to break through to his students and properly teach them, despite being stuck in a school system that has continually failed them.