The Friedman family saw their happy and comfortable life plunge into tragedy when in 1987 the father and youngest son were jailed on charges of child abuse.
Although the American media has thrown itself into the case, nothing like the Friedmans' own home videos capture the reality of the real drama: society's double standards and the questionable legal system in place. These videos are the basis of this meticulous documentary that has achieved great international repercussion as well as the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Festival and which, in the words of Jesse Friedman, the son who served thirteen years in prison, turns out to be the true trial that has never He had.