When a district attorney who is eager to make an example of a teenaged offender misinterprets an essay written by fifteen-year-old Annie Ireland, Annie, her best friend Roach Boy, and Primo, a magical being who is trapped in a doll's body, are sent first to jail then to a cross between a school and boot camp.When a district attorney who is eager to make an example of a teenaged offender misinterprets an essay by fifteen-year-old Annie Ireland, Annie, her friend Roach Boy, and Primo are sent to jail then to a cross between a school and boot camp.