Karl didn't sign up for the lifestyle he's in now. Smoking, fighting, dares. When one dare lands him back with the cops again, he's on last strike with his overbearing parents. He wants nothing more than to get out of the house away from their disappointed and abusive faces. That chance, is given to him at last. Fed up with him, his parents send him away to his aunts new private school. He's the first to ever go to said school. He's the first to stay in a room, there waiting for other kids to join. The day after he moves into the dorm a lot more kids come getting sent away from home to be banished off to the all boys school. And that's when he meets, them. They change his life forever. They help open him up after he shuts out everyone who tries talking to him. They help him see that there are some people in this cruel, mean, world that need to be given a chance. They bring him hope.