Twelfth-grade English teacher Mr. Lowell turns up dead one May morning. Cause of death: autoerotic asphyxiation gone wrong. Everyone at Ridgeview Alternative School is shocked. Everyone, that is, except honor students Jordan Byrne, Nick Moretti, and Chloe Underwood.

Back in September, aspiring civil rights lawyer Jordan, Juilliard-hopeful Nick, and budding actress Chloe land in Clifford “Call Me Cliff” Lowell’s classroom with big dreams of university scholarships and lucrative careers. Soon, they discover the well-respected educator and head of the Teachers’ Federation is actually a sexual predator with a long list of victims — a list that’s about to include the three of them. Facing a manipulative monster, a complacent administration, and grim futures, the trio hatches a desperate plot: plan a murder so perfect that maybe, just maybe, they can get away with it …