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This film is a truecrime thriller that goes behind the headlines to uncover the deepseated and social mediafueled boys will be boys culture at the root of high school sexual assault in America Like many small towns across the country Steubenville nestled in a valley in eastern Ohio lives and dies by its high school football team So when a teenage girl was sexually assaulted at a preseason football party in 2012 no one came forward with information Truecrime blogger Alex Goddard set out to uncover the truth piecing together the details of the crime through cell phone footage and photos that made their way to YouTube as well as a nearly minutebyminute account of events on social media In the process she uncovered both the perpetrators and the entire culture of complicity that enabled them The ensuing trial which made national headlines cut to the very heart of nationwide debates about rape culture