A boy, waiting for a bus. A dog, begging for potato chips. The boy sends the dog away, violently. He sees a hangnail on his finger and shows us, graphically, why you should never pick at them.
Chicago 1924. A prosperous city Thriving in the midst of racial and political turmoil. Two precocious wealthy teenage scholars, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, kidnap and murder a fourteen-year-old boy, Bobby Franks.