Fourteen-year-old Hal Mitchell will soon be free of Hellenweiler, a reformatory for second-offenders, if he can avoid the gang violence of his fellow inmates, but the real enemy may lie elsewhere.
Fourteen-year-old Hal Mitchell, sentenced after his recapture to live at a boys' home called Hellenweiler, tries to stay away from gangs and violence so he can get out in a few months, but his inmates do their best to involve him in trouble.