Jack has spent most of his life in juvenile institutions, yet he's about to be released with a new name, new job and a new life. At 24, he is utterly innocent of the world, yet guilty of a monstrous childhood crime. To his new friends, he is a good guy with occasional flashes of unexplained violence. To his girlfriend, he is strangely naïve and unreachable. To his caseworker, he's a victim of the system and of media-driven hysteria. And, to himself, Jack is on permanent trial: he struggles to start from scratch, forget the past, become someone else.