For at redde sin datter må en ustabil veteran fra specialstyrkerne slippe sit indre udyr løs, mens han forfølger hendes kidnappere – og snart er han selv under mistanke.

Omkring tredive år efter at Arlis var vidne til sin far myrde en familie, løber han ind i Kay, som tilfældigvis er familiens baby, der blev skånet. Kay og Arlis formoder intet om hinanden, men når hans far vender tilbage, åbnes gamle sår igen.

Gøg og Gokke slår sig på hjemmebrænderi i forbudstidens USA, men da Gøg i sin salige uvidenhed prøver at sælge sprut til en politibetjent, havner makkerparret bag tremmer. Her får de problemer med Gøgs løse tand og en ilter lærer, før det lykkes dem at flygte til en bomuldsplantage.

While locked-up for six years in federal prison, artist Jesse Krimes secretly creates monumental works of art—including an astonishing 40-foot mural made with prison bed sheets, hair gel, and newspaper. He smuggles out each panel piece-by-piece with the help of fellow artists, only seeing the mural in totality upon coming home. As Jesse's work captures the art world's attention, he struggles to adjust to life outside, living with the threat that any misstep will trigger a life sentence.

In 2011, Maine State Prison launched a pioneering reform program to scale back its use of solitary confinement. Bafta and Emmy-winning film-maker Dan Edge and his co-director Lauren Mucciolo were given unprecedented access to the solitary unit - and filmed there for more than three years. The result is an extraordinary and harrowing portrait of life in solitary - and a unique document of a radical and risky experiment to reform a prison. The US is the world leader in solitary confinement. More than 80,000 American prisoners live in isolation, some have been there for years, even decades. Solitary is proven to cause mental illness, it is expensive, and it is condemned by many as torture. And yet for decades, it has been one of the central planks of the American criminal justice system.