In February 2008, 15-year-old Larry King was shot twice in the back of the head by classmate Brandon McInerney in a computer lab at E.O. Green Junior High in Oxnard, California. King, who had recently begun coming to school in makeup and heels, had asked McInerney to be his Valentine days earlier. Director Marta Cunningham interviews teachers, classmates, jurors, and both boys' families to reconstruct how a school failed to protect one student and how a troubled home shaped the other, McInerney having grown up amid domestic violence and exposure to white supremacist material. The film follows the trial, where McInerney was charged as an adult, and shows jurors in tears over whether to call the killing a hate crime or the act of an abused, radicalized child. Interviews with sympathetic jurors and unrepentant classmates make clear the case split the community rather than resolved it. It closes without a tidy verdict on blame, leaving the two boys' broken circumstances side by side.