THE GATEKEEPERS

Anyone passing through Lake Forest would think this was the most picture-perfect place ever...

Anyone passing through Lake Forest would think this was the most picture-perfect place ever, with all the lakefront mansions and manicured hedges and iron gates. You’d never expect that their brilliant and talented kids have a terrible history of throwing themselves in front of commuter trains because of unrelenting academic pressures, or that there’s rampant opioid abuse that often leads into heroin usage. But no one talks about it.

THE GATEKEEPERS has multiple perspectives, including Simone, the bohemian transfer student from London, who is thrust into the strange new reality of the American high school; Mallory, the hyper-competitive queen bee; and Stephen, the first generation genius who struggles with crippling self-doubt. Each one of these characters is rocked when the lovable football player Braden takes his own life and this tragedy becomes a suicide cluster. With so many students facing their own demons, can they find a way to save each other – as well as themselves?