"This is a place where drugs arrive by drone, where facially tattooed men meet each other's gaze with a cool opaque challenge in the canteen, and where the cues and balls on the recreation area's pool table have only one purpose: to give someone a three-month stay in the hospital wing while underpaid guards in lanyards and ill-fitting v-neck jumpers look the other way."
"Having been emotionally messed up by his neglectful, vulnerable mum Joy (Sharon Duncan-Brewster), he instantly forms a bond with Krystian (Vladyslav Baliuk), a shy Polish kid remanded for a chaotic attempt to burgle a library, in order to sniff the glue used to repair bindings. They are menaced by the chilling Dion (Sekou Diaby), whose rule they must obey; they are wary also of the sinister Mason (Ryan Dean)."
A lawless young offender institution forces terrified newcomers to abandon innocence and decency and submit to gang authority enforced by a psycho top G and violent loyalty tests. Drugs are smuggled by drone while facially tattooed inmates exchange opaque challenges and use pool cues as weapons. Troy, remanded for conspiracy to murder and emotionally damaged by a neglectful mother, bonds with shy Polish Krystian, remanded for a bungled library burglary to sniff glue. They face threats from Dion and the sinister Mason while a caring youth worker, Claypole, attempts interventions. The work foregrounds redeemability, critiques hetero machismo, and highlights phones, drugs, and respect as prison currencies.
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