Welcome to Hillsborough is a short animated film created at DePaul University in Chicago. It is the first chapter in an episodic series in the style of pulp-comics and Film Noir following the adventures of a group of middle-school children (11-13 years old) coping with a sugar-free world where parents have vanished. After their disappearance sweet treats are now the ends and means and favorite vice for water gun toting gangsters, private eyes, and the innocent children caught in the cross fire hoping just to see the next day. In the style of 1920's prohibition era crime thrillers a mystery unfolds as happy playgrounds, recess and nap time are traded for fist fights, kidnappings, water-balloon attacks.