LEfuller
They were loud.
They were online.
They told the truth.
No one listened.
Five years after a teenage boy is shot dead at a pit on the edge of a forgotten mining town, Detective Jayne Reddington returns to Roseville and is handed the original case file.
It was ruled cut and dry.
A bad kid.
A bad family.
A single bad night.
But the statements tell a different story.
Through witness accounts, police interviews, and voices that refuse to behave, You Should Listen unravels the lives of the Indigo Children - teens who grew up under surveillance, suspicion, and silence.
They joked when they were scared.
Performed when they were hurting.
Spoke loudly because being quiet never kept them safe.
As Jayne reads, the case stops being about the past - and starts becoming about everything that was ignored: abuse that was reported, warnings that were documented, and children who were never believed.
The truth was always there.
It just wasn't convenient.