Cette série explore les recoins les plus sombres de la psyché humaine, en examinant les expériences traumatisantes qui façonnent la vie des personnages. Elle retrace les abus émotionnels et physiques endurés dès la petite enfance et les séquelles durables qu'ils laissent. Les récits sont empreints de suspense, d'une brutalité brute, et abordent les thèmes de la survie, de la vengeance et de la quête de rédemption dans les circonstances les plus désespérées. C'est une expérience de lecture intense qui n'hésite pas à affronter les aspects les plus lugubres de la nature humaine.
Joe knew his mother was cruel and violent, but he trusted his beloved father to protect him from her. When a freak accident saw his father burn to death in front of him, Joe was left at the mercy of his mother. Without the love of his friend and brother, he wouldn't have survived. With them, he went on to spend his life fighting child abuse.
"I crept out the house. I would never live in fear of mum and her friends again. The shameful things they made me do, the the terrible things they did. At last I was free."The heart-breaking true story of an abused little boy who grew up into a remarkable man.Little Joe was only five when he was first beaten by his mother and brutally raped by her boyfriend, and only nine when they sold him to a paedophile ring. For years he was beaten, raped, photographed and abused, fed only on meagre scraps that he had to lick off the cellar floor.Then, when he was 16, Joe finally found the courage to escape. Joe ran away to London to start a new life but his nightmare was far from over. Penniless, friendless and utterly desperate, Joe was drawn into the dark world of crime. He was bent on self-destruction until the love of a good woman finally set him free...