Ken Park

Ken Park, a teenage skateboarder known as Krap Nek (his name spelled and pronounced backward), dies by suicide at a skate park in Visalia. His death frames the stories of four other teenagers who knew him: Shawn, who is the most conventional of the group; Tate, who struggles with intense anger; Claude, who faces constant abuse from his aggressive father and uneasy care from his heavily pregnant mother; and Peaches, who takes care of her deeply religious father but longs for independence. Although they claim to be close friends, their relationships are complicated by their personal struggles.