PREMIS
What if young guiltless woman is accused of crime and fellow prisoners turn out to be most dangerous criminals?
CONTROLLING IDEA
‘ Life makes sense only once we learn to accept our destiny‘.
MAIN CHARACTERS:
Lil‘ – a black girl in her twenties. She has a criminal record since she turned sixteen an now has been convicted of drug trafficking and smuggling. Also appears as the person who is the most involved in prison culture. She is in charge of drug networking within the whole prison.
Maurin - the cell mother. She was accused of a stick-up and murder and thus, is the most dominant figure in the cell. She has the right to make last decision and as the only one has the privilege of giving psychological and physical punishment.
Didy – has been accused of prostitution act and has a son at the age of 8 who lives currently with a foster family. She has the lower status in the cell structure.
Samantha - a hero and the only Point of View figure in the story, currently studing Fine Arts. She lost her parents at the age of 18. The dominant father trained her to be a doctor and monitor each sphere of her life. The rigid discipline at home did not allow her to show inner feelings and emotions what happened to be the ground to hide Sam’s true nature. After her parents’ death, she has been convinced by only truly friend – Johnson, to change her academic course. He himself became the substitute of her lost family and protection. (Characterisation) Girl is perceived by others as a passive person that can be easily manipulated. Well-brought-up and representing snobish background, she is internally (Character) impulsive and emotional figure. She tends to hide in herself the element of aggression and domination, which is disclosed after Momenth of Truth. Character's Arc exposes that Sam managed to take control over her life and learn to be emotionally independent. Experiences that she has been faced in prison, forces her to survive and see herself in a different life framework.
Bomby - a pregnant terrorist. She has been broadly engaged in a conflict with the government. Along with the members of extremist group, she was responsible for series of bomb attacks.
Johnson – the very friend of Sam. At the age of 8 he has been molested by his mother and then went to the foster family. Since that time, Sam became his soul mate. She helped him to accept his homosexuality and eventually do a coming out. Johnson, in turn, gave her support when her parents tragically died. He does not maintain any contact with his own mother. His partner is doing a law degree.
Caroline – computer artist and lesbian. She has been educated at the prestigious Art School in Los Angeles. More recently she was involved in an academic career at the digital graphic design department. She has been accused of manslaughter murder.
Psychologist - nationally respected psychotherapist. She was accused of molesting autistic children who were happened to a subject of her research. Despite the fact that a woman is leaving the prison soon, she manifests the anxieties and depressive disorder due to her lost reputation and general respect within medical agenda. Her unbalanced behaviour is reiforced by physical and mental abuse among prisoners because the harsh prison culture does not accept the crimes against children.
ACT ONE:
• Establishing ‘Normalcy’: Young girl leaves the cinema during the night performance. She lights a cigarette and slowly wends to Los Angeles underground. Illuminated shopping windows of the exclusive precinct constantly grab her attention. Girl ignores the passers-by including the person with a bag in a hand who passes her in a hurry.
• Inciting Incident: Suddenly a police car pulls up from a side street. Girl is forcefully drawn into the vehicle and a car drives away fast.
• Girl is taken to the police station where the identification of suspects is taking place. Sam is now officially identified by a witness as the perpetrator of assault on the disable person.
• Call to Action: A girl goes to prison where is located in the 'temporary' cell. One of the prisoners briefly introduces her into the despotic philosophy of the prison environment where women with petty crimes are used and abused psychologically. Thus, they rarely leaves the prison without any mental or phisical harm. They are normally placed in the ‘sucker’ cell. She advises her to choose the 'elite’ cell - prisoners with serious crimes because it will enable her to survive the trial under their inflential ‘arms’. Prisoner warns her to make a right decision.
• Commitment To Act: Going for the meeting with 'location superior', Sam is accidently passed-by a girl from the 'sucker' cell who has a fresh incised wound on the forehead. Sam realizes that the ‘elite’ cell is her only way to harmlessly survive in those psychopatic conditions. In addition, she deeply belives that a rediculous misunderstanding will soon come out and see the daylight. Once asked about the preferable location, she assignes herself to the 'elite' cell without demur.
ACT TWO:
• During daytime walk, Sam does not manages to get a cocaine for Lil‘ because dealers flail one of the ‘suckers‘.
• The first meeting with attorney who has been hired by her best friend - Johnson. The lawyer informs her that the disabled man got a heart attack a few hours after the assault and eventually he was found dead. The prosecutor posed an additional plea of manslaughter. Sam is terrified by this news. She has the vision of doing sentence in the harsh environment of criminal ‘elite’, instead of someone else.
• The girl tries to work on her ‘hard’ image in order to be distinguished among cell inmates. She stands behind defendance of Didy but unfortunately is immidiately hounded by influential Lil’.
• She is seeing with Johnson. He assures her he will do anything to pull her out from this place. His partner has some influences, but the situation is tough due to she has no alibi. He also says that he got a letter that his mother died a week ago but he is not going to the funeral.
• Sam has a walk outside with Didy. Woman tells her about her little son who had been taken into foster family and all that she feels are pangs of conscience. She thinks that his hard childhood will have negative influence on his future life. Sam alludes Didy’s belives to Johnson’s life who was molested in the age of 8 by his mother and that probably effects his sexuality and his psychological construction. Suddenly, girl is pulled aside by dealers and forcefully intimidated.
• Sam borrows a drawing paper from Caroline and that creates the fight scene with aggressive Lil’. Maurin finds out that black girl sent dealers to bully her. In the act of punishemnt, both girls receive a series of small cuts on their backs.

MID POINT: Maurin is doing a tattoo on Lil’s back. The black girl is mockingly telling a peorative joke about the raping lesbians. After a quick while, Caroline who has been very tranquil and easy-going so far, throws herself on Lil’ and smoother her almost to death. The black girl is still choking for a while afterwards.
• In the prison cantine, Sam meets the Caroline’s lifestory who in revange for the rape of her girlfriend in revenge for the rape of his girlfriend, kills the rapist under the emotional trigger. She reportes herself to the police. Sam notices her emotional alterego in Caroline’s figure. The girl begins tocontempltes about the absurdity of life and the paradox of destiny. For the first time, the anger and grief appears in a such intensive scope. A powerlessness and lack of control over her own life, takes her hopes away for a quick leaving.
• The prison community suffers form boredom. Suddenly one of the cell guard informes Sam that she is coming out today due to case met the final resolution. Her emotion goes up to the zenith point. Sam is hastily packing the stuff with the conviction that there a bit justice on this world left. After a while it turns out that the cell guard was just jokking. Sam cries her hear out for the whole night.
• The girl have another conversation with the lawyer. She admires the fact she is intensively loosing her strenght and is torn between prison extremes. She is approaching the insane point. Lawyer does his very best but the process may take months. He advised to be armed with patience because the case is complex.
• Sam refuses to go for walks. She suffers from insomia at night and from time to time, has convulsions. Didy advices her to visit prison nurse and get some pills.
MOMENT OF TRUTH: Sam is triggered by a desperation. She torn bed sheet and hung herself on the grille of cell window. Lack of oxygen makes her being unconsciously sleepy and thus, she has an image of Johnson who suffers at her grave.With the rest of strength, she breaks up the sheet from her neck and falls down exhaustedly on the bed and cries. She is experiencing the emotional catharsis.

ACT THREE: Empowered with new strenght Sam, begins to buy into the grace of ‘Elite‘.
• The girl passes the exam of prison jargon that was organized by Maurin.
• During the cell inspection, the guard discovers some cocaine in the Lil’s things. Sam is taking the incident on herself and gets takes it on himself and gets a ban on daily walking.
• Bomby is moved to the hospital due to the advanced pregnancy. Sam unduly takes terrorist’s bed that, in accordance with the principles of prison cell, suppose to be now occupies by Didy. Sam does not care about this fact and defends agressively her decision.(shows her true character).
• Sam has a conversation with Caroline about her crime, grief and the act of sacrifice in life. The gril is thinking about her dearest friend and the essence of destiny. After a while, some thoughts appear that perhaps there is a reason for her to be here even though she is not guilt. Now it seem to her that prison purely manifests her lack of control over own life.
• An available place in a cell is filled by the Psychologist that, in turn, will leave the prison soon due to the lack of evidence for her crime. Cell inmates forces her to have meals only in the toilet and steal her personal belongings from the locker.
• Sam has meeting with her lawyer. She finds out that her case is potentially closed due to the lack of sufficient evidence. Probably she will be allowed to leave the prison very soon.
• Psychologist has been beaten by dealers during walking time. She experiences mentally hard time.
• During visitation time, Sam has a meeting with Johnson. The conversation is full of tension that has been grown with since girl’s suicidal attempt. Meeting means a lot to her because he is the only person who truly knows her. However, the conversation does not seems right anymore. Her moves on chair and gestures seems to be more unbalanced. She cannot forget the fact he was molested as a child. Besides Caroline has a meeting with her girlfriend that draw Sam’s attention. In the background, Psychologist is seeing with her lawyer. Sam feel that For the first time in her life, Sam feels that inner emotions prevail.
CLIMAX: Sam knows she will not let psychologist to leave the prison. All cell inmates smoother psychologist and then simulates her sucide by the hanging. On the next day, they have been suspected of helping in murder act. Eventually all of them get a ban on visiting and walking until the end of investigation.
• For the sake of bad mental condition of psychologist before the accident, the accusation are eventually cancelled.
RESOLUTION: Sam’s personality and feelings will never be the same. Like the war changes soldiers psyche, so the prison has changed Sam’s behavior . She was forced to adapt to its environment in order to survive the trial. When the leaving day approaches, the girl is picked up by the Johnson but after a brief argument, they disperse in a silence. Things that previously tied them up, now make them to be different.