This extraordinary human saga that spans 12 years and starts with the story Wilner St. Fort and his fellow street kids growing up in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti. Their fight for survival takes us on a harrowing journey into a landscape filled with violence, death, and constant peril. Their shocking story is heart-wrenching, full of moral dilemmas, and has explosive revelations that will stun the world even in the midst of the resent historical earthquake that had devastated their country. Wilner and his fellow street kids hope for the future - to build and run their own orphanage and to protect and raise their fellow young street kids from poverty and the ever present evil that is set out to destroy them and the film crew.