Anthony Lee Medina

Scott has been a case of arrested development ever since his firefighter father died when he was seven. He's now reached his mid-20s having achieved little, chasing a dream of becoming a tattoo artist that seems far out of reach. As his ambitious younger sister heads off to college, Scott is still living with his exhausted ER nurse mother and spends his days smoking weed, hanging with the guys — Oscar, Igor and Richie — and secretly hooking up with his childhood friend Kelsey. But when his mother starts dating a loudmouth firefighter named Ray, it sets off a chain of events that will force Scott to grapple with his grief and take his first tentative steps toward moving forward in life.

社会全体が混乱した近未来の米国では新政党“NFFA”のブラッケンが大統領となり、年にひと晩だけすべての犯罪が合法化される制度“パージ（浄化）”が国民のストレス発散になるので犯罪率も失業率も激減すると主張。そんな“パージ”の効果を測定する実験がNYのスタテン島で行なわれることになり、住民たちがおびえる中、Dが率いるギャングは敵対勢力との対決に向けて準備する。その一方、“NFFA”の陰謀が進行し……。