When El Pollo ("the chicken") is captured by authorities for stealing, he has the bad luck to be sent to a children's correctional institution. There, conditions are little short of nightmarish. When the boys there riot, he escapes confinement for a short while but is soon recaptured and sent to another institution, which is run by women. If conditions at the first of these locations were almost unbearable, the situation he finds himself in at the second is even worse. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi