Jack is five and excited about his birthday. He lives with his Ma in Room, which has a locked door and a skylight, and measures eleven feet by eleven feet. He loves watching TV, and the cartoon characters he calls friends, but he knows that nothing he sees on screen is truly real -- only him, Ma and the things in Room. Until the day Ma admits that there's a world outside ... Told in Jack's voice, The Room is the unsentimental and sometimes funny story of a mother and son whose love lets them survive the impossible.