In this psychological thriller, Tony Redmond is sent to serve a twenty-year sentence for second-degree murder. Living out his sentence in the aged and decaying penitentiary, Tony seeks to master the demons that reside in Meadowdale Prison, confronting the evil that is embodied in dramatic fashion in the warden, the guards, and his fellow inmates. Tony must determine whom he can trust and whom he cannot. Navigating the treacherous life behind bars, Tony must accept the loss of the childhood that he left outside the prison walls and his conversion into one of them, the hardened criminal. Meadowdale, in its seedy decay, provides the backdrop for a sinister entanglement of lives as corrupt as their surroundings.