Los chicos de la Nickel

Since childhood, Elwood Curtis has listened with devotion, on his grandmother's old record player, to the speeches of Martin Luther King. His ideas, like those of James Baldwin, have made this black teenager a promising student who dreams of a decent future. But this is of little use at the Nickel Academy for Boys: a reformatory that prides itself on turning its inmates into full-fledged men but hides an inhuman reality endorsed by many and ignored by all. Elwood tries to survive in this place with Turner, his best friend on Nickel. The idealism of one and the cunning of the other will lead them to make a decision that will have irreparable consequences.