Jacob Rzeznik is your average teenager: mopey, irresolute, and gradually growing into the person he feared becoming - a shadow of his equally despondent parents, who are so entrenched in their own quotidian misgivings that the only attention they pay him is verbal punishment. His school life is little better, as teachers barely tally him on their attendance sheets, and his classmates greet him with grimaces when he intrudes into their fulfilling, populated lives. Camille, the apple of Jacob’s eye, won’t bite any of Jacob’s romantic advances, yet she wants something he has never had, and she is the last person he wants it from - friendship. So Jacob battles his disaffection the only way he knows how: alone, online. Armed with a camera and a broken heart, Jacob posts his malcontent ramblings for the world to see, yet the few viewers he attracts badger him to get buried. But misery loves company, and Jacob is not going alone. His detractors are tacit yet profuse, but so are the munitions available to an unstable 18-year-old with a swath of birthday money bequeathed by a grandfather housed in a vase. Equipped with a roll of duct tape, a handgun, and a suicidal intent, Jacob assures his voyeurs that they could have saved him. But bringing a gun to school is only the beginning of Jacob’s troubles, as he wrestles with pulling the trigger and leaving his love - and his rivals - behind in a world that has never known him.