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Tale

Elwood Curtis’ college dream is shattered on a two-lane highway in Florida. Having borne the brunt of an innocent mistake, he is sentenced to the hellish Nickel Academy, a brutal penitentiary sunk deep in the Jim Crow South. He meets another ward, the all-seeing Turner. Two black teenagers form an alliance: Turner gives fundamental advice on survival, Elwood warms to his optimistic outlook. Against the backdrop of the growing Civil Rights Movement, Ellwood and Turner’s existence seems far from reverend. The great oratory of Martin Luther King. Despite Nickel’s brutality, Elwood strives to retain his humanity, awakening Turner’s new vision.