Coleman Simmons

On the night his alcoholic mother relapses, a trans teen discovers something monstrous lurking just beneath the skin of his fractured home… When young Toni becomes convinced that a monster is hiding under his bed, his best friend Marcus joins him for a sleepover to prove it’s all in his imagination. But as the night deepens, unsettling events make it clear that something terrifying lurks in the shadows.

In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.