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“Outside, they break they laws. Inside, they make them.”
Prison life at its grittiest is revealed in this urban tale about three teenage boys who follow in the footsteps of their father through the violent prison system. When a young filmmaker begins shooting a documentary on the boys, she discovers that a crooked cop set them up … and soon, she becomes more involved in the corrupt tale than she ever imagined.
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The story of a gang of children growing up in a community of banished criminals, in a forgotten corner of the former Soviet Union. This community rejects the world outside. The only law it obeys… is its own. Against this backdrop two best friends, Kolyma and Gagarin, gradually become fierce enemies as they find themselves on opposite sides of the strict code of honour of the ‘honest criminal’ brotherhood.

Eddie Dodd is a burnt out former civil rights lawyer who now specializes in defending drug dealers. Roger Baron, newly graduated from law school, has followed Eddie's great cases and now wants to learn at his feet. With Roger's idealistic prodding, Eddie reluctantly takes on a case of a young Korean man who, according to his mother, has been in jail for eight years for a murder he didn't commit.