When journalist David Whitehead returns to his childhood home to report on recent shootings, he finds a town ripped apart by violence and sudden bereavement. As David searches for answers, his story interweaves with those closest to the victims of the tragedy, revealing their lives before, during and after the killings.
The families of the dead are each immersed in their own struggle to comprehend what has happened with feelings of guilt, madness and grief prevalent among them.