California Valley State Prison for Women holds roughly 3,900 inmates, making it one of the largest female correctional facilities in the country, and this film goes inside its cell blocks and yards to look at how violence functions there. Interviews with inmates and staff walk through daily routines, the tensions between prisoners, and the incidents that guards have to contain before they escalate. One thread follows the prison's first recorded inmate murder, used as a case study to push back on the assumption that women's prisons are inherently calmer than men's. Inmates describe the paths that brought them there, from abuse to addiction to gang ties, and corrections officers explain what keeping order actually requires on a unit this size. The film stays close to individual accounts rather than statistics, letting specific women explain their circumstances and their sentences in their own words. It is a portrait of one institution, not a survey of the system, built from the people who live and work inside it.