When offender Luke Jackson has been sentenced to two years at a Florida prison plantation, he doesn't play with the rules of the resident heavy of the yard or the warden , drag-line, who eventually ends up admiring the guy's unbreakable will. Luke's bravado, even in the face of recurrent stints from the prison's dreaded solitary confinement cell,"the box, then" make him a rebel hero to his fellow convicts and a thorn in the side of the prison officers.