After receiving a bizarre series of encrypted messages, a group of kids embark on an adventure with an alien who needs their help.

Bill and Kate are in an emotionless marriage with their only son away at college. They knew he didn't sound happy but then comes the news that he was the mass murderer at his school killing 17 professors, fellow students and himself. They try to move on with their lives but they are held back by their own grief and the fact that the media and everyone around them view them as monsters. The more they fight it, they realize they only have each other.

Two brothers drive across country to see their hero, Roberto Clemente, get his 3000th hit.