When offender Luke Jackson is sentenced to 2 yrs in a Florida prison plantation, he still doesn't play by the rules of the resident heavy of perhaps the yard or the sadistic warden , Dragline, who ends up admiring the new man's indestructible will. Luke's bravado, even in the face of repeated stints in the prison dreaded solitary confinement cell,"the box," make him a rebel hero to his fellow convicts and a thorn in the side of the prison officers.