Synopsis

In the 1960s, African-American Elwood Curtis is sent to Nickel Academy, a juvenile reform school after he is falsely accused of a crime. While there, he meets a boy named Turner, and the two form a close friendship as they try to survive the horrors of the school and its corrupt administrators. Decades later, an investigation takes place after the academy`s walls are found to have hidden a history of atrocities, including events that led to bodies being buried on the premises.

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