Four suicidal teenagers go on a "celebrity suicide road trip," visiting the graves of famous people who have killed themselves, with the intention of ending their lives in Death Valley, California.

Sixteen-year-old Cat St. John tries to come to terms with the growing evidence of her father's mental illness and his eventual suicide.

Fifteen-year-old Jeff wakes up on New Year's Day to find he has been admitted to the psychiatric ward after trying to kill himself and is offended that anyone would think he has anything in common with the other "crazies" in the hospital with him, but as his stay lengthens he begins to see he is more like them than he thought.

Novelist Tim Underhill, investigating the suicide of his sister-in-law and the disappearance a week later of her fifteen-year-old son, Mark, follows the path of a pedophilic serial killer which leads him to an empty house that holds echoes of horror.