It was a flat, black rectangle that glowed with a cold, impossible light. When fifteen-year-old Vern and his crew pointed it at themselves, a dead cable channel called Channel 77 came alive. The town watched. The number climbed. And the machine, patient and efficient, began teaching them all what they really wanted.

Street Freaks is the story of the month five teenage skaters accidentally invented the future - and what it cost them to understand what they had done.