In 1965, America was shaken to its core by one of the most horrific cases of child abuse and torture ever recorded. Sixteen-year-old Sylvia Likens, a kind and trusting girl, was left in the care of Gertrude Baniszewski, a seemingly ordinary single mother. What followed was a months-long descent into unimaginable cruelty, a house of horrors where Sylvia was starved, beaten, burned, and humiliated, all while neighbors and children watched and participated.