Every summer, California burns.
As these seasonal blazes rage across the state,
thousands of professional firefighters
including incarcerated volunteers battle the fires
for many months on end, sometimes into the winter.
Fireboys is the untold story of young men incarcerated in California
who are offered a way out: by fighting wildfires.
Immersive and personal, this coming-of-age story
is told from the perspectives of young men as they summon the courage
to fight fires and confront their pasts.