The touching testimony of an extraordinary friendship – a brave, powerful text about the hope of giving at least one child a future. Nicolas Lunabba was once a "troubled child" himself; now he works as a social worker for youth whose criminal paths seem predetermined. He knows violence and anger all too well. His experiences allow him to connect with them, especially with one boy: Elijah. But Nicolas may not be able to save everyone, perhaps not even anyone. He must set boundaries to avoid breaking down. Yet he dares to take Elijah in, to believe in Elijah. With empathy and honesty, Nicolas Lunabba describes how a relationship full of ups and downs cautiously develops between the two, how Elijah learns to trust Nicolas and vice versa. Nicolas Lunabba's literary memoir is an important, highly emotional text about a drifting society, about the vulnerability of boys and men, about structural racism and classism.