The story is set in the 1980s in the United States, a private high school outside Detroit, there are two kinds of students: freaks and nerds. Freaks are idle and make trouble, books are weak and incompetent, and they can only read books. Lindsay (Linda Cardellini Linda Cardellini) got top grades because she didn't want to be classified as a "nerd", so she took the initiative to meet several "freaks" and became their friends. Her brother Sam (John Francis Daly John Francis Daley) is a real nerd who is not only weak and incompetent, but also makes a group of equally cowardly nerd friends. All kinds of students in the school have to face their own growing troubles, Lindsay has to face the dual discipline of family and school every day, and Sam has to endure the nuisance of school hooligans every day. This is a true story, a story about growing up, rebellious freaks and weird book nerds. Their lives are staged in every high school campus, reflecting everyone's youth.