SYNOPSIS

Hilary Swank stars in this story about a teacher in a racially divided school who gives her students what they need most: a voice. Swank plays Erin Gruwell, is a teacher who inspired her students to overcome the gangs that divided them by violence and racial tension. The teacher Erin Gruwell battles an uncaring system in a fight to make the classroom matter in her students lives. Now, telling their own stories, and hearing the stories of others, a group of supposedly "unteachable" teens will discover the power of tolerence, reclaim their shattered lives, and change their world. Gruwell teaches us all an important lesson about tolerance and trust.