17-year-old Jared lives alone with his mother Diane a single parent coping silently with her recent diagnosis of breast cancer. When Jared‘s mentor mate and local surfing legend Ricko returns from a stint up the coast Jared decides to throw a welcome home party at the local surf club. As the party rages on a 15-year-old girl is gang raped and beaten to death on an abandoned stretch of Beach only minutes from the club. When morning breaks the news of the murder circulates, the working class community of Blackrock is promptly splinted by shame, deceit and mistrust. With the Media gorging on the class and ahe aspects of the story Diane pleads with her sullen son to reaffirm his innocence.
