Diese Serie taucht in die dunkelsten Abgründe der menschlichen Psyche ein und erforscht traumatische Erlebnisse, die das Leben der Charaktere prägen. Sie schildert emotionale und körperliche Misshandlungen, die eine Person von der frühen Kindheit an erleidet und deren Folgen sie ein Leben lang mit sich trägt. Die Geschichten sind voller Spannung, roher Brutalität und untersuchen Themen wie Überleben, Rache und die Suche nach Erlösung unter den schlimmsten Umständen. Dies ist ein intensives Leseerlebnis, das sich nicht scheut, die düstersten Aspekte der menschlichen Natur zu konfrontieren.
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...