Sean, adolescent tourmenté, est rejeté par les élèves du collège de sa petite ville canadienne. Isolé et mal dans sa peau, il se sert d’Internet comme exutoire et imagine des scénarios de vengeance virtuels. Alertée, la police fait irruption dans la maison où elle trouve les armes de chasse de son père. Accusé de planifier un crime, Sean va devoir faire face à l’hostilité de la communauté et affronter une machine judiciaire obsédée par le principe de précaution.
Un avocat, chargé de la surveillance des maisons de correction, se révolte contre la violence que fait régner d'un directeur d'établissements pour jeunes délinquants.
Janet Holman is suspicious of her fiancé, Allen Wells, after he kisses her best friend Gwen when the lights are turned out during a party. Allen leaves early, purportedly for business reasons, but in reality, he is going to visit his secret girl friend, seventeen-year-old Ruth Jarrett. When Ruth's neighbor and landlady, Mrs. Humphries, overhears her talking to Allen on the phone, she becomes morally outraged and calls the police. Ruth is taken away to juvenile hall, and when Ruth's older brother Nick comes home to celebrate Ruth's birthday, Mrs. Humphries explains that Ruth has been seeing an older, wealthy man who has been leading her astray, and that she sent her away for her own good. Nick is saddened that he has failed to keep Ruth on the right track, and when he returns to his apartment, he becomes enraged to see Allen there. When Allen claims ignorance of Ruth's age, Nick hits him, and they engage in a brawl.
The movie is based on the fascinating, true story of a feral boy whom hunters found among wolves in a forest in the mountains of Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) in the mid-1980s. The boy was sent to the institution for children in an attempt to socialize him and got the Muslim name – Haris. Contrary to most predictions, he was developing and making friends quickly. When the war in BiH broke out in 1992, Haris got the letter from local Bosnian authorities which asked for his immediate return. Upon returning to BiH, he had nowhere to go. While wandering aimlessly, he came across a group of soldiers that gave him a gun and took him with them