The Best Hardcore Band in PA is the coming of age story of Cyrus, Jeff, and Mindy as misfit teens in a place where they'll never be considered "normal"--Cyrus for being gay and losing his mother at age twelve; Jeff for playing hardcore music featuring the "devil's lyrics" and questioning his sexuality in this town filled with churches; and Mindy for being Korean in a place where anyone non-white doesn't always fit in. The boys navigate their complicated feelings with each other, their parents, and the town, while forming the best ever hardcore band in PA, their only hope of escaping this place.