A group of women in prison work with poet Leah Thorn on a creative writing program, turning their experiences into verse and personal essays. The film follows the sessions themselves: Thorn guiding participants through exercises meant to get past the guarded, practiced answers prisoners learn to give, and toward something closer to what they actually feel. Writing here functions as a rare private space inside an institution built to remove privacy, and the film watches that tension play out as women read their work aloud to each other, sometimes for the first time saying things they have not said to anyone. There is no narrator stepping in to interpret the poems or explain what they mean; the sentences and the reactions to them carry the film. What emerges is less an argument for arts programming in prisons than a record of what a handful of specific women wrote and how they sounded reading it.