Derek is a leader of a Skin-Heads’ gang and he went to jail after killing a black man that was trying to rob his property. The time of imprisonment is a long and a painful period, which changes Derek and directs him onto the way of redemption. However, when he comes back home he faces the most difficult task: he has to save his brother, Danny, who grew up following the footsteps of his elder brother by embracing the ideology of Nazism and racism.
The main characters of “American History X” are two brothers. The eldest one is Derek; he is a Nazi-skin and he ...