When society fears and rejects delinquent youngsters, Lucille Meyer takes them in and remodels them into upstanding citizens. They arrive at the Chrysalis Academy in the Western Cape, where she is CEO, as school dropouts, gangsters, depressed, violent, on drugs and with a low self-esteem. But when they leave after three months at the academy, it is with determination and a new purpose in life – spurred on by their new mother.