这是发生在I.S.318(Intermediate School 318，位于纽约市的布鲁克林区。)的真实故事,，它似乎令人难以置信却又是那样引人瞩目。这所学校65%的学生处于联邦政府的贫困线以下，却拥有全美排名最高的初中象棋组。 纪录片的对象正是象棋组的学生们:Rochelle, 立志成为美国第一位黑人女性象棋大师; Pobo, 富有个人魅力的象棋组领导者; Justus, 一位从小就必须背负高期望并不断达到大师水平的插班生; Alexis, 一名压力重重的学生，移民父母期望能由他实现全家的美国之梦; Patrick, 一名借助象棋来帮助克服多动症的学生; James, 有着象棋天分的年轻饶舌师傅; 还有其他各式各样的学生.——译自官网。

Brooklyn Castle is a documentary about I.S. 318 – an inner-city school where more than 65 percent of students are from homes with incomes below the federal poverty level – that also happens to have the best, most winning junior high school chess team in the country. (If Albert Einstein, who was rated 1800, were to join the team, he’d only rank fifth best.) Chess has transformed the school from one cited in 2003 as a “school in need of improvement” to one of New York City’s best. But a series of recession-driven public school budget cuts now threaten to undermine those hard-won successes.