Derek didn't pass high school, he didn't even make it through his 11th grade. He was stuck in dead-end jobs and unemployment offices for most of his adult life. He was 22. 22 years of his own disappointment. This was his fault, he chose to drop out when "things got tough", so it is entirely his fault that his life didn't work out the way it did. His parent could have afforded for him to go to college and university, but putting it simply, he was lazy. So very, very lazy. This did end up costing him a lot of jobs, and in return, a lot of money. He spent the tiny bits of money he had on a leather jacket and some cigarettes. He wanted to look cool, to be the Fonzie of life, but it didn't really work out for him.
He was never a Fonzie type of person.
However, something did make him smile. His friends who had finished Uni were going to come back and visit their old school, and catch up with him later in the day. Little did he know that something might possess him and his friends to do something different...