A teacher in an abusive marriage takes a job at a maximum security prison, where she falls for a charismatic inmate. The disastrous consequences call into question not only the nature of punishment and retribution, but the very limits of our humanity.

Multiple lives intersect in the aftermath of the violent mugging of a Columbia University philosophy professor.

An Ivy League professor returns home, where his pot-growing twin brother has concocted a plan to take down a local drug lord.