When a boy with a crush on Franklin High's most popular girl can only get up enough courage to express his feelings through poetry, some cruel classmates devise a "practical joke" to teach this "creepy stalker" a very public lesson. Deeply humiliated, the boy apparently commits suicide. But things don't add up to Mary-Ellen, so she uses a graduation project as an excuse to interview those involved. The evidence she uncovers convinces her that certain students should be prosecuted for manslaughter. Is Mary-Ellen right?