Five-year-old Jack has spent his life locked in a room that for him is the entire world. He is unaware of any life beyond the walls of the eleven-by-eleven foot space where he eats, sleeps, showers, plays, and learns. The room is his life.  For his Ma the room is a prison. It’s where she’s spent the last seven years being raped and beaten by her kidnapper, Old Nick. At night, when Jack’s Ma puts him in the closed wardrobe, she saves him from seeing the ugly truth, but she knows she can’t lie to Jack and shelter him much longer; the two of them must escape. Jack and his Ma devise a plan, but neither of them have any idea of what lies outside of the concrete door or of what will happen to them if they fail. The plan relies upon Jack, the courage his Ma taught him, and the immeasurable love between a mother and her child. Room, by Emma Donoghue, is a riveting story of a small boy named Jack and his Ma and their struggle to break the grip a sexual predator.