The Élan Faculty was a for-profit, residential conduct modification program and therapeutic boarding college situated deep throughout the woods of Maine. Delinquent youngsters who didn't adjust to different therapy applications have been referred to the college as a final resort. Remedy entailed harsh self-discipline, surveillance, degradation, and downright abuse. Years later, the sufferers who have been institutionalized on this facility nonetheless carry the trauma they endured, with combined opinions on the influence of their expertise.