
When fourteen-year-old Nicholas Dane's mother dies, social services sends him to a home for boys where intimidation and violence keep order. After a number of fights and brutal punishments, Nick thinks that life can't possibly get any worse . . . until he realizes that the home's...


Fourteen-year-old Nick is sent into England's institutional care system after his single mother dies of a heroin overdose, where he endures harsh punishment and sexual abuse, and witnesses horrors on a daily basis before finally emerging, emotionally