A troubled seventeen-year-old feels abandoned by his divorced parents. His rebellious behavior, in an attempt to recapture the attention of his family, leads them to have him committed to a residential treatment facility where he encounters a system designed more to perpetuate itself than to help it

A troubled seventeen-year-old feels abandoned by his divorced parents. His rebellious behavior, in an attempt to recapture the attention of his family, leads them to have him committed to a residential treatment facility where he encounters a system designed more to perpetuate itself than to help its young clients.