She is a determined woman with a grim past and hopeful future, an ex-con determined to go straight and stay clean - until a lover's betrayal sends her back to a nightmare of abuse, humiliation and desperation at a women's prison where the staff brutalised the inmates and forced them to have sex.

Yet even criminals have rights and Alice vows to fight for justice and expose the scandal with the help of a crusading lawyer. But with her freedom and even her life under threat, just how far is she prepared to go, and what price will she have to pay?