This is the true story of four young boys. Their potential is unlimited, but they are content to live within the closed world of New York City's Hell's Kitchen and to play as many pranks as they can on the denizens of the street. Until one disastrous summer afternoon what begins as a harmless scheme goes horribly wrong. And the four find themselves facing a year's imprisonment in the Wilkinson Home for Boys. What happens to them over the course of that year - brutal beatings, unimaginable humiliation - will change their lives forever.