Darren Hueneman was a seventeen year old high school student when he recruited two fellow students to murder his mother and grandmother. SCORN is a chilling journey into Darren's’heart and mind.

It begins in 1991 in Oak Bay, a well-to-do suburb of Victoria B.C. Darren (Eric Johnson) is an attractive, charismatic boy with no moral center, whose fantasies of grandeur and imperial self-image are indulged by the women who raised him.

Bored and frustrated with the restrictions of his middle class life, Darren fantasizes with his friends about invading Brunei and installing himself as divine ruler. The only thing standing in their way is the lack of funds – Darren’s long promised inheritance from his grandmother’s chain of women’s wear stores.

His life takes a turn when he is cast as the lead in the school’s production of A. Camus’ Caligula. Playing the Roman emperor synonymous with absolute freedom and consummate evil, Darren finds a voice for his appetite for destruction and a justification for his scorn, all the while missing Camus’ sense of existential despair and the nature of the tragedy.

He dreamed of taking over the rich little country of Brunei and installing himself as divine ruler. To realize his plans, he needed cash -his long-promised inheritance- and accomplices. All that stood in his way were his mother and grandmother. Darren enlisted two classmates to murder them, providing him with an opportunity for another bravura performance-the grieving orphan.

A privileged BC teenager who had his mother and grandmother murdered for the inheritance, the film explores Darren's intense narcissism and rampant ego as he manipulates everyone around him to achieve his twisted goal, including Matt, his unwilling boyfriend.

In an interview, Darren Hueneman provided a mass of detail on the relationships between him and both his family and friends, as well as the revelation of his homosexuality, a fact apparently not known to Ms. Birnie (the writer of the book). His family’s implicit rejection of his sexual orientation was, according to Darren, significant in his progressive estrangement from them.

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