A troubled teen.
A school with secrets.
A risky plan.
Fourteen-year-old Sam Snyder thinks he is going on a short vacation to visit his godfather.
Instead, his adoptive mother drops him off at a Baptist reform school in the backwoods of Missouri.
Surrounded by razor-wire fences, violent at-risk youth, and oppressive staff, he quickly realizes that he's not in California anymore.
Between fistfights, fire-and-brimstone sermons, and falling in love with a girl that he.
