Late 1990s. New Orleans.

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When Joe takes a job as a psychiatric technician at a sixty-year-old psych hospital, he is assigned a one-on-one named Henry. He is a troubled teenage boy with a history no one seems willing to fully explain.

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Henry can be difficult and unpredictable. But he is also funny, vulnerable, and tender. As an unlikely bond forms between them, Joe begins to see something others may have missed: Henry desperately wants someone who won't leave.

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Then another adolescent boy arrives on the unit. He's dangerous.

Henry knows him from the streets and from previous stays at the hospital.

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And then there are the fires.

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One destroyed part of the psych hospital. Another killed an elderly couple.

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Everyone believes Henry is responsible.

But as Joe becomes more deeply involved in Henry's life, the truth becomes harder to separate from what everyone already believes.