 DETENTION is about Missy Boswell, a typical high school girl in the process of becoming a woman. She craves attention. She dresses to get attention. She takes her need for attention to the extreme when she seduces the school s mentally unstable janitor into a rash of killings one Saturday during detention. Missy s plans start to go wrong when she discovers her ex-boyfriend is among the potential victims and then she must enlist his help when the janitor decides to come after Missy herself.