The Maze prison, known locally as Long Kesh, held thousands of Loyalist and Nationalist paramilitary inmates during the Troubles, and this film traces its history through the people who lived and worked inside it. Former prisoners and prison staff describe conditions inside the H-Blocks, the riots and escape attempts that punctuated its decades of use, and the daily friction between two populations who saw themselves as combatants rather than criminals. The film's central episode is the 1981 hunger strike, when ten IRA prisoners refused food to demand political status, a protest that drew international attention and hardened positions on both sides of the conflict. Testimony from survivors and relatives sits alongside archival material to show how the prison functioned as both punishment and propaganda battleground. Rather than treating the Maze as a footnote to the wider Troubles, the film uses it as a single, contained lens on the ideology, loss, and eventual moves toward reconciliation that defined Northern Ireland's conflict.