In Roaring 1920s Chicago, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb are inseparable, unlikely best friends who seem to have everything: wealth, education, and brilliant minds with dazzling futures ahead of them. But they share a dark double life: Richard is infatuated with delinquency, and Nathan is infatuated with Richard. United by obsession, they enter into a twisted pact of crime and passion that spirals out of control and culminates in one of the most shocking murder cases of the twentieth century.