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A downbeat tale of teenage alienation from first-time director Antonio Campos, Afterschool sees a public school pupil confront death in the digital age. High school loner Robert (Ezra Miller) spends his spare time surfing the net for hardcore pornography and random clips of unrelated items that appeal to him. Given a digital video camera to record footage for an audiovisual class, Robert happens to be present when two popular girl students accidentally die from a drugs overdose. With the school in mourning, Robert is given the job of producing the school's official memorial video. But as he becomes immersed in his task, he soon finds himself becoming even more alienated from those around him.

This acclaimed, provocative film sets age-old adolescent anxieties within a disorienting contemporary culture of omnipresent voyeurism, and is the first major feature by award-winning young director Antonio Campos.