Wasted on the Young

Darren is a quiet, introverted teenager who attends a prestigious high school alongside his popular and wealthy step-brother Zack. A girl named Xandrie has a crush on him, and she decides to attend one of Zack’s elaborate house parties to spend more time with him. The evening unfolds with the usual buzz of privilege and expectation, and the atmosphere hides a darker undercurrent as Xandrie hopes for a connection that might finally shift her place in the social ladder.

At the party, Xandrie meets Zack and he notices her interest in Darren. Xandrie fails to meet up with Darren and is intercepted by Zack’s friends Karenn and Simone, who offer her a spiked drink. Xandrie is taken to the basement, where she passes out and is left alone with Zack and his friends, Brook and Jonathan. She wakes up at a beach and goes home after discovering she was raped. The ride from the basement to the beach-like mood of the morning after hints at how quickly trust can fracture under pressure, rumor, and the coercive power of money.

The next morning, [Darren] discovers Xandrie’s phone in the basement, and is unable to find her at school. He meets up with Ella, Xandrie’s friend who was with her at the party, but got separated from her and doesn’t know where she is. The absence of a clear path to the truth sets Darren on a cautious, escalating pursuit, driven by a need to understand what happened and why Xandrie vanished from the social landscape so suddenly.

Darren gets no answer from Zack and instead follows Jonathan. He denies Darren an answer and is beaten up by him as a result. The confrontation marks the first violent crack in the veneer of the party’s perfect image, revealing how quickly fear and control can fracture relationships built on prestige. Darren tracks Xandrie’s home address and visits her, but she doesn’t answer her door. Xandrie eventually shows up at school and discovers her reputation is destroyed by false rumors surrounding her disappearance. Karenn threatens her, saying how the majority are more likely to believe their story than hers due to Zack’s wealth and reputation. The social machinery of gossip and respectability gnaws away at Xandrie’s standing, leaving her to wonder how she might ever clear her name.

Darren decides to find out what really happened to her and hacks into Jonathan’s laptop. He is sick to discover footage of Xandrie’s assault. At school, Darren finds Xandrie and tries to help her, but she refuses and tells him she passed out when it happened and has no concrete evidence. Zack pays Xandrie a visit and warns her about divulging the truth, as it could affect their chances of graduating. The tension between truth and image becomes a high-stakes choice placed before Xandrie, and the consequences feel immediate and personal for everyone involved.

Xandrie and Darren soon reconcile. Brook convinces Zack that Darren knows the truth and might discredit them both. Zack has Brook corner him before beating him up. Bloodied, he is taken outside by Brook and Jonathan while Xandrie shows up with a gun, contemplating about killing Zack. He tells her that shooting him won’t change a thing—they will still believe his story more than hers. Despaired, Xandrie shoots herself instead. The image of a community choosing to protect its own over the vulnerable lingers as a stark reminder of what can happen when rumors outpace evidence and power silences truth.

To secure his reputation, Zack soon throws another party. Filled with angst, Darren shows up at the party and makes Simone feel guilty about Xandrie’s suicide, and convinces her to drug Zack’s drink. Darren also spreads the footage of Xandrie’s assault to everyone in the party through their phones. Brook finds out about this and confronts Darren, who hits him in the head with a bottle. The partygoers question Zack about the truth and he blames it on Brook and Jonathan, who overhear him outside. Soon, the drug in his drink takes effect. He follows Darren (whom he sees as Xandrie) in the basement, where he passes out. He wakes up bound in one of two seats before a device Darren had engineered. Darren tells him that the partygoers will decide which one of them should die via their phones, as they are seen on the televisions around the house, placing a gun on the device, which will shoot one of them depending on the votes. He sits beside Zack in one of the seats, and the gun later shoots.

[Darren] is later shown swimming in a pool at some kind of a facility.

Last Updated: October 09, 2025 at 16:56