How can you make the right decisions if everything you've been told is a lie? With absent parents and broken friends, twenty-one year old Ben is making choices, which are ruining his life. In jail, again, he and his cellmate, Jake, take a hostage in a futile gesture against a system they can't control. This powerful, beautifully written novel gives a vivid and realistic picture of those we send to prison. Who would you rely on if you were locked up? Do we ask the most from the ones who have the least? Life is never easy when you are a boy inside.