A handsome boy. Sheff D.

What happened to my beautiful boy?

with our family?

What did I do wrong?

are these questions that pursued David Sheff every moment On his way in the fight against his son’s addiction to drugs. Nick was a charming young man, a cheerful, an athlete from a university team, an excellent student who was adored by his younger brothers and sisters. And then he turned into a trembling ghost who lied, stole and lived on the street. With disarming frankness, David Sheff trains the first warning signs: denial, phone calls at three in the morning (“Are you, son? In the police? In the hospital?”), Attempts of rehabilitation.

help of David to his son depended. Obsessive anxiety and stress almost broke it. He investigated all the methods of treatment that could save his son, and was not going to abandon Nick.

This story about the dependence of the teenager on the parent and the parent on the child. The chronicle of the fall and the return of hope.

the film was shot from Timothy Shalama and Steve Carrell in the main roles, it was nominated for BAFTA Awards and the Golden Globe.