The Fire That Burns
Some kids should be left the hell alone.
A dark, intimate drama about adolescent friendship fractured by institutional abuse and predatory power, grounded in the specific horror of Catholic institutional failure.
Two boys in their early teens in a strictly-run pre-WWII Catholic School form a firm friendship which is troubled by an abbot who is obsessed with the younger of the students.
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