On a regular summer night in their neighborhood, a group of junior high kids talk about their town's various mysteries: the tragic murder-suicide of an older couple, the straight-A kid Hank Carter who turned into a violent bum, and most importantly, the Jeffrey MacDonald hearing. Back in February, on the army base nearby, Jeffrey MacDonald had killed his wife and two kids. No one could understand why. The town is steeped in death — a local magician died by suicide after teenagers sexually assaulted him, a different teenager was bullied to death, and twenty years earlier, a boy was thrown from a car and landed on a spiked fence outside someone's home. The group of kids sneak into a motel pool and swim around in their clothes. When they come up for air, they think about how Jeffrey MacDonald said he performed mouth-to-mouth on his wife. One day while Hank Carter directs traffic, a group of boys begin to harass him. Unlike most other times, Hank remains calm. He swings his gun around and scares a girl. When the girl Hank scared, now a woman, is a senior in college, she learns that Hank died of a heart attack. The whole town misses him. The woman wishes she could call up her old friends and classmates.