DNA

It begins as a test of courage: in order to belong to the gang, Adam has to eat leaves, then ciga­rettes are put out on him and, last but not least, he has to balance over a grate at the top of the hill. Adam obeys, slips and falls down a meter-deep, dark shaft. It is unlikely that he survived the impact. To cover up their own involve­ment in the accident, the teenagers draw up the profile of an imaginary perpe­trator. Quite unex­pect­edly, the police actually find a man who fits the descrip­tion. Unrest spreads among the kids, and their nerves are completely frayed when Adam — badly injured but alive — crawls out of a hedge and has to be disposed of a second time. Kelly’s protag­o­nists have seen enough CSI episodes to know how to cover genetic tracks and lay false trails. However, the fact that their consciences come to the fore in their callous­ness was defi­nitely not planned.