A retired police sergeant creates a boot camp school to turn around 42 juvenile delinquents. His approach meets pushback, causing him to question if he's actually helping them reach rock bottom or making things worse.

SYNOPSIS:

Based on the best-selling novel of the same name, 42 high school-aged males and females are sent to a newly created military-style boot camp school as a final chance in turning their lives around. Rival gang members, druggies, and violent offenders are combined with other at-risk students expelled from their traditional schools.

Inspired by the movie Freedom Writers, their teacher, a retired hard-nosed police sergeant, is given the task of not only formulating the new campus but fostering a relationship with his students who come from various dysfunctional families. The Academy stresses order, structure, and when necessary, discipline. In partnership with the U.S. Army, the cadets begin noticing a change taking place not only in themselves but in their outlook on life.

Through recreations of their stories told as voiceovers and enacted on the screen, the viewers will “feel” the life they are currently experiencing, the crimes they committed, and how the Academy and its staff turn them into a family.

HITTING ROCK BOTTOM