A group of delinquent boys are sentenced to a wilderness challenge on a remote island, but become stranded. As civilization disappears, their detention becomes a game of survival - with each other, and with the unexpected.
The 4PM Club follows the hijinks, romances, and friendships of a group of Attaway Middle School students who find themselves in the unenviable position of spending their afternoons stuck in detention.
Three private school students get detention. They are instructed to clean the chapel and make their penance.
Francisco, Isabel, Fco. Javier and David are captured in different parts of the world when they worked as "mules" to overcome the crisis. They tell their stories from the deal that turned them into traffickers to their release from prison.
Four high school teens are thrown into detention after a fight come together of their love for music and songwriting. However, their newfound bond is brought to a halt by the harsh reality of the world they come from.
School captain Ellie is seriously crushing on her rebellious classmate Abbie. Determined to ask her first love to the year 12 formal, Ellie devises a plan to go public with the invitation but before she can go through with it, her dead aunt Tara reappears from beyond the grave. Believing she's been brought back from the dead to be Ellie's fairy godmother, Tara dishes out unwanted dating advice based on her life as an out lesbian in the '80s.
Fear and paranoia consume a middle-aged teacher as his grasp on reality deteriorates while overseeing detention.
Four adults are detained in their apartments with only each other and a computer for online company. They each come from a different class with differing views but they all have one defining purpose to understand why they are really being held hostage in their own homes. The AI refuses to reveal the reason.