Documentary about a youth home, Breiðavík, for boys on the age between 9-16 years old. There happened alot of brutal violance on all 128 boys which where send there because they got involved with the law. Few of them stepped up and shared their story of Breiðavík, when they where there between the years of 1956 - 1972.
This documentary tells a story about a shameful past, about lives scarred by violence and neglect. It brought dark secrets to light in late 2006 and turned Icelandic society on its head. Young boys were beaten and raped and systematically humiliated while in the care of the state. The film takes a quiet approach with intimate in-camera narrative from the subjects themselves interwoven with archive material and stunning imagery from Iceland's remote West-Fjords.—Bergsteinn Björgúlfsson