Shattered Mind

A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigate their crops.

Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and joins a poetry class over the summer just to impress him. Thomas J., her best friend, is "allergic to everything", and sticks with Vada despite her hangups. When Vada's father hires Shelly, and begins to fall for her, things take a turn to the worse...

In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.

Snippets of conversation fly across the table as a family gathers together for lunch.

A psychological thriller about a man who is sometimes controlled by his murder-and-mayhem-loving alter ego.