The 15:17 to Paris

A dramatization of a real life story, with the three principal subjects as adults portrayed by their real selves. Spencer Stone, Alek Skarlatos, and Anthony Sadler, having known each other since middle school in Sacramento, are the type of friends that will always have the others' backs. They have had to as besides Spencer and Alek having supportive single mothers, they were largely friendless as teens, often being bullied in being seen as outsiders and often being sent to the principal's office in their disruptive behavior. They were unfocused and unmotivated, their teachers believing it to be attention deficit disorder (ADD) specifically with Spencer and Alek. The only things on which they had any focus as teens were games of war and strategy with each other. Spencer and Alek parlay that focus into a military life in their current young adult years, albeit not quite in the "active combat", "saving the world" realm as they would like, in part due to certain limitations on what Spencer in particular can do. With the two already stationed in different parts of Europe, Spencer and Alek invite Anthony to Europe to backpack around the continent for the summer together. With a rough plan, the one destination upon which they are humming and hawing in not many they speaking to having good things to say about it is Paris. They make a fateful decision to stick to their plan of going to Paris, that fate having to do with what ends up being a terrorist attack on board their train.