Marco is constantly being bullied at school and finds it difficult to confide in his parents and express his frustration. He fakes being sick so that he can avoid the inevitable, but his mother sees through his act and lectures him on the importance of an education and with the help of his father they pressure him to go to school. Unable to defend himself, at the end of the day Marco’s bully finds him and turns him into a bloody pulp. On his way home, Marco decides to cut through a forest and stumbles upon an unconscious man with a gun and a briefcase. Marco studies the bloodied man for quite some time and comes to the conclusion that the man is dead. Marco notices that the man has a briefcase clenched in his hand and thinks that there might be something valuable inside. He begins to pry the man’s fingers off of the case, but the man wakes up and lunges for his gun. In a moment of sheer desperation, Marco is forced to defend himself.