The Virginia Film Festival

with Macky Alston

A half-century after Swarthmore student Bob Brechtel planned a Virginia Tech-style massacre that killed one student, he has become an upstanding member of his community and beloved father to two girls. Macky Alston’s documentary film records Brechtel’s revelation of his secret past to his daughters and the University of Arizona community where he teaches psychology. His family’s love and loyalty is tested, a judicial system which was far more lenient 50 years ago is examined, and important issues about the old case surface, including the possibility that the bullying, which Brechtel says motivated the shooting, might never have happened.