On November 7, 2007, 18 year old pekka shot and killed eight people at a high school in Joleka, a peaceful Finnish commuter town just north of Helsinki. Conversations with classmates, teachers and Pekka his parents lead into to a haunting reconstruction of the oppressive circumstances that led to this tragic act. We come to see that these circumstances are not necessarily unique to Pekka his life in Jokela.