This film is an excerpt and recreation from the wildly popularly book “13 Reasons Why” by Jay Asher.
The story is a mystery about a young girl who chooses to leave cassette tapes to the people who had a hand in her fateful decision,  her decision to take her own life.

It’s a story of choices and the everyday dramas that make up the life of American teens and how, in this case, these dramas led to a devastating choice. This riveting award-winning tale leaves us with a hopeful message as it comes to an end; it helps us all recognize what we can do to help the ones around us. More of those tapes can be seen and heard here: http://tinyurl.com/hannahbaker

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High school – love it, hate it or just endure it!
Teens receive a lot of stick about their general behaviour but adolescent life has never been easy, especially in today’s society.  Rumors and reputations often run rife in school, and it can all become too much to handle when there are already so many other fundamental issues to deal with, like sexual identity and development, romance, ethical pressures, and peer pressure – that’s just mentioning a few! Sometimes, it can all add up to a pretty traumatic experience and, the sad reality is, that some girls (and guys) buckle under all that physiological pressure and end up taking their own life.

Jay Asher’s debut novel, Thirteen Reasons Why, relates well to these contemporary pressures and it will tug at your heartstrings. The story is of Hannah, a girl who takes her own life, and is told in dual narratives, through Hannah herself and her classmate, and admirer, Clay. Hannah leaves a bunch of tapes on which she’s recorded her reasons why she chose to commit suicide. Some of those tapes can be heard here http://tinyurl.com/hannahbaker.

The story is both intricate and compelling and reminds us that there’s always so much more to a person that just what’s on the surface.