It's the year 1995, and Gerard Way is a senior student at St. Martians high school in a small suburb town. It's his grade twelve year, and he's going completely insane. Every last friend he thought he had has abandoned him in order to become "cool" or part of the in-crowd, and his best friend committed suicide less than a few months ago, and now Gerard is as lonely as one can be. He's pissed, and he wants out of that place he calls Hell. The thing is, he really doesn't know how he could ever escape. That is, until the new kid shows up. Also in his twelfth year, Billie Joe Armstrong is the average punk asshole you'd expect to find smoking pot in a ditch, and is just bound for trouble. But after bonding a friendship with him, Gerard discovers secrets and horrors he would have never though twice that this world held in store for the two of them. Based on the album's "American Idiot" and "The Black Parade", Billie and Gerard set things on fire when they decide to run away and start things new again, following a line of brotherhood, fairytales, lost lovers, and the story of St. Jimmy. It all starts with a bit of rage and love...