The Pledgemasters

While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.

Will arrives for his last year at Military Academy, in the Deep South USA, in the 1960's. A black student, Pearce, has been accepted, for the first time and Will is asked to keep an eye out for the inevitable racism. The racists come in the form of The Ten, a secret group of the elite students. They want Pearce to leave on his own free will, but are prepared to torture him to make it 'his free will'. Will is forced to help Pearce and he is prepared to risk his own career to do so.

Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.

Deep into Hell Week, a favored pledgee is torn between honoring his code of silence or standing up against the intensifying violence of underground hazing.

A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law.