Leaving Neverland

In 1986, Jimmy Safechuck, a child actor from Simi Valley, California meets Michael Jackson on the set of a Pepsi commercial. Immediately taken by Safechuck, Jackson becomes a cherished family friend within months. 1987, Brisbane, Wade Robson, an amateur child dancer, is granted the opportunity to meet Jackson after winning a dance-alike competition. In 1990 Robson's mother, Joy, followed up with Jackson, and the whole family is subsequently invited to Jackson's home for the weekend, where the friendship was formed. Part One follows Jimmy, Wade and their families as they are seduced by the singer's fairy-tale existence and enthralled by their relationship with him. Both boys' families blind to the manipulation and abuse Jackson ultimately subject them to.

At the beginning of Part Two, James and Wade reach adolescence and find they are no longer in the same "privileged" position, no longer the object of Jackson's seemingly undivided attention. However, they keep their secrets and their loyalty to him, bound by the complicated emotional attachments forged in abuse, leading them both to defend Jackson in 1993 and Wade again in 2005 when allegations of child molestation emerge. As they grow older their emotional turmoil mounts as they struggled to make sense of the past, revealing how the ripples of sexual abuse can manifest themselves decades later. Finally, facing emotional crises, both men reach a point where they are willing to speak the truth to their family members and begin to confront their trauma, trying to understand their complex memories and heal the fractured relationships within their families.