Rod Ferrell leads a group of teenagers calling themselves the Vampire Clan out of Murray, Kentucky, in the winter of 1996, driven by drug use and a fixation on vampire mythology that convinces him he is a 500-year-old creature named Vesago. The film traces the group's drive to Eustis, Florida, where Ferrell and his followers kill Richard Wendorf and Naoma Queen, the parents of a girl drawn into the clan's fantasy world. Investigators describe a crime scene marked by ritual and frenzy, and the case becomes national news once Ferrell's courtroom claims about his supposed vampirism turn the 1998 trial into a spectacle. Facing the death penalty, he pleads guilty and is sentenced as the youngest person on death row in the United States, a sentence later reduced to life without parole. Interviews and case footage lay out how a small-town teenager's gothic role-playing curdled into a real double murder, and how the trial forced questions about where fantasy stops protecting anyone from consequences.