High Desert HC artist-Tooru MJ on stage

MJ on stage

and Take-Moon/Carnival Phantasm

but her journey’s cut short when a redhead-serial killer is on the loose

lonely years spent waiting for his nemesis to arrive

But if anyone can put them in their place

High Desert HC artist-Tooru MJ on stageApple Valley, California, in the late eighties, a thirsty, miserable desert. Teenage James Spooner hates that he and his mom are back in town after years away. The one silver lining new school, new you, right? But the few Black kids at school seem to be gangbanging, and the other kids fall on a spectrum of micro aggressors to future Neo Nazis. James doesn't know where he fits until he meets Ty, a young Black punk who introduces him to the school