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Alex, a 16 years old teenaged boy skateboarder accidentally kills a security guard in the vicinity of Paranoid Park, Portland’s tough streets park. He decides to say nothing about it. He and his friend check out a mythologized skate park. The youth’s attraction to its culture of punkish freedom and the hypnotic rhythms of ball bearings on concrete lead him into a fast friendship with a low-life anarchist. Something horrific happens at the nearby rail yards, and suddenly our young man is at the centre of a criminal investigation. But what crime did he commit, if any? Youthful world reinforces the isolation Alex feels from everyone outside his meaningful subculture.