Concord is a transfer school – a last chance high school for at-risk teens. Most students have experienced tremendous challenges in life. They don’t believe that change for them is really possible. This film follows them as they participate in a semester-long mindfulness program. The twist here is that the students both help to film the experience and conduct a scientific study – of their classmates! – comparing the effects of mind-training with that of a placebo group. Working as research assistants with scientists from Harvard and Hunter College, they ask: Could three minutes of mindfulness practice a day change their lives? Says one reformed skeptic: ‘Even though you can’t control most of what happens in life, you can change your mind.’ ‘I’m not a quitter,’ another agrees.