2024 Torrent - Sonicetactical

Elwood Curtis’ college dream is shattered on a Florida two-lane highway. Bearing the brunt of an innocent mistake, he is sentenced to the underworld of Nickel Academy, a brutal reformatory deep in the Jim Crow South. He meets another ward, Turner, who can see it. The two black youths form an alliance: Turner offers basic survival advice, Ellwood maintains his optimistic worldview. Against the backdrop of the burgeoning civil rights movement, Ellwood and Turner’s existence seems worlds away from the fiery oratory of the Reverend Martin Luther King. Despite Nickel’s brutality, Ellwood tries to retain his humanity, which awakens a new vision in Turner.