The world stops spinning for fifteen year old Rudolph Priest when he survives a deadly school shooting. His heart breaks in two when he realizes his best friend, Donny, did not. Things spiral further out of control when it is revealed that Rudolph's older brother, Randy, was the man behind the murders, and that their parents will stop at nothing to keep him out of prison. Now Rudolph must decide for himself whether he will bend to his family's will, like he always has, or if he will stand up to them, stand by the community that his brother destroyed, and find some sense of justice for the person he loved most in the world.

A young Korean-American hustler runs throughout the city of Chicago making sales out of his "mobile gift shop".

As a series of perverse scam calls unsettles an idyllic retirement community, a starry-eyed nurse becomes entangled with her mysterious patient.