Five-year-old Jack sees the room where he and Ma live as the world, but Ma sees it as the prison where she has been kept for seven years since she was nineteen. As Jack's curiosity and Ma's desperation grow, the Room cannot contain them much longer.
A 5-year-old narrates a riveting story about his life growing up in a single room where his mother aims to protect him from the man who has held her prisoner for seven years since she was a teenager.
Five-year-old Jack has spent his life living in an eleven-by-eleven foot space his mother calls Room and while Jack uses his imagination to create wondrous fantasies to entertain himself, his mother dreads the day her son begins to question why they must remain in Room and tries to find a way to escape.
