You expect summers of children to be filled with playground games, vacation trips and late nights without homework. However, in The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete, Mister and Pete spend their entire summer dodging child protective services while finding ways to feed themselves.
After Mister’s mother has been taken into custody by police, he is pushed to his limits as he tries to endure the summer with no food and no money while looking after his friend, Pete. Although a fictional story, The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete, makes a painful and somewhat accurate observation of how society’s impoverished children can be driven to the brink…just when you think they might make it, they’re defeat seems almost inevitable.