The film depicts through documentation and reenactment, the stories of five youths who received the most severe sentence available for convicted adults - a sentence of 'natural life' or 'life without parole'. Fear of juvenile crime has, in recent years, violated the fundamental ideas upon which juvenile court rests, and specifically, the belief in children's unique capacity for rehabilitation and change. State law makers and the federal government have more and more frequently opted to resort to harsher punitive adult models, demanding that children be put on trial as if they were as culpable, liable, and informed as adults who commit similar crimes. Forty-one states in the U.S. elect to enforce a sentence of life without parole (natural life) on youth under the age of eighteen. The sentencing system for youth is especially vulnerable to challenge where over half of the youth did not, themselves, commit a homicide, and at no point in the process was their youthful status and lesser culpability taken into account
| Directed by | Tirtza Even |
| Written by | Tirtza Even |