Leonard is serving life in a Florida prison for murdering Patricia and Chris in 1998. Several years after his conviction, Agnes – Patricia’s mother and Chris’s grandmother – felt the need to understand this tragedy, and to heal. As law forbade her from meeting Leonard, she decided to write to him. It was the start of a long correspondence that gave birth to a book and a joint fight to promote restorative justice, an alternative view on justice based on prevention and victim/offender dialog.
Over the last 10 years, Agnes has met other people involved in similar initiatives. In this film, those struggles echo each other and allow us to examine the meaning of restorative justice and the hope it sparks, both in the United States and in the world.
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