When their bus is crippled on the side of a deserted road, a team of high school athletes discover an opponent they cannot defeat – and may not survive.

In the fall of 1994, a teacher at Chicago’s run-down Steinmetz High conspires with the school’s academic decathlon team to cheat on an academic competition.

A boy and his brother run away from home and hitch cross-country, with help from a girl they meet, to compete in the ultimate video-game championship.