An eleven-year-old boy's struggle to survive the shocking death of his father. After three long years of misery and torment, the grieving boy senses happiness within his grasp and passionately reaches for it. But his mentally-deranged mother has other plans. She wants her son to wallow in misery with her and unleashes her worst mental and verbal attacks she can conjure up to keep him down. But the boy is too smart for her. He knows his mother is a genuine nutcase and easily overcomes her devious plot. After his mother realizes she has failed to subdue her son, she begins to devise ways to get rid of him. She laces chocolate truffles with potassium cyanide for the boy's dessert at school. Luckily for the boy, he tastes one but they are too sweet, so he decides to give them to his begging classmates for lunch. To his horror death falls upon his classmates. His life is on the line when staff and students both turn on him. He scarcely escapes death as the police come just in time to save him. He is released in his mother's custody. She attempts to convince both the police and the boy he committed the crime to take the blame off herself. The boy's bad dreams turn into his worst nightmare. Then the implacable struggle for survival begins...