The trio, especially John and Allen, aspire to join the most popular and exclusive fraternity on campus, Kappa Psi Lambda.
John begins to idolize the charming fraternity president, Jake Tyler, who is also captain of the football team and an academic star.
Jake targets Steve through a series of dangerous and racially motivated hazing incidents aimed at testing the loyalty of John and Allen.
Lawrence Van Gelder of The New York Times wrote, "Written, directed and edited by Jonathan M. Flicker, Followers is a cautionary tale worth telling to college students with the potential to figure in the annual headlines about fraternity excesses.
And its lessons about the cost of remaining passive in the face of evil, of countenancing bigotry and of betraying friends bear reinforcement in any season.