In the far future, an alien civilization captures pacifist protesters and, as punishment, turns them into mind-controlled soldiers forced to commit violence. Will they be able to resist the effects of the mind-controlling drug and rebel?

A deputy warden gives a tour of a prison.

A man in a jail tells his fellow prisoners the story of a General from the Civil War who was paranoid that two brothers whom he wronged were out to kill him.

A man imprisoned for murdering his brother drifts between his visiting wife, his memories of life outside, and his friends in prison as he struggles to find meaning in his captivity -- in everyone's captivity.

A weary medical officer struggles to keep watch during the night shift in a naval prison hospital, even as the prisoners begin to cause trouble.

A man incarcerated for murder navigates his time behind bars and his reintroduction to the world after being released.

During World War II, a group of French prisoners on a windowless train find a hole in the wall of their boxcar and are delighted, when they look through it, to see the countryside of their homeland.

Torn between the demands of being a mother, keeping a home, and working a job as a prison officer, a woman struggles to make ends meet.

A series of interconnected vignettes and characters explores themes of race, incarceration, family, heartbreak, and love.

Sinkler escapes from his chain gang with a woman who also wants to escape her own version of prison, however, his escape ends in tragedy.