十年前，帕波（泰勒·席林 Taylor Schilling 饰）大学毕业后结识了一名女毒贩艾丽克斯（劳拉·普莱潘 Laura Prepon 饰），与她成为恋人并随她环游世界，后来在她要求下参加了一次运毒行动。时过境迁，帕波离开了艾丽克斯，过上正常生活。一天，她和未婚夫（贾森·比格斯 Jason Biggs 饰）被警方告知，十年前那桩贩毒案被破获，帕波遭到逮捕。帕波主动来到女子监狱服刑，为期15个月。面对监狱的新环境，初来乍到的帕波感到不知所措，糟糕的是她还不小心得罪了厨房负责人红姨，遭到红姨的报复。不仅如此，她还在监狱里重遇了昔日女友艾丽克斯。
在这座联邦女子监狱内，帕波遇到形形色色的女囚，第一次领略到“监狱文化”，她将要处理各种各样的问题。尽管认识了一群性格坦率的女囚犯，但她的牢狱生活绝不会一帆风顺……
“In the early 1990s, at the height of the international war on drugs, the government agency in charge of Britain’s borders, Her Majesty’s Customs and Excise, realized that they were losing the battle against drug smuggling. Their solution was extraordinary,” reads the logline. “In a top-secret operation, a small team of British Customs employees were sent undercover. Their task – to infiltrate Britain’s most dangerous drug gangs.” “They were not trained spies. These were ordinary men and women, plucked from ordinary lives around the U.K, put through a basic training regime then told to build new identities in the criminal underworld. These identities were called Legends.
改编自维克托·拉瓦列2013年的小说《The Devil in Silver》。聚焦搬运工人Pepper（丹·史蒂文斯 Dan Stevens 饰），因为坏运气和坏脾气，他被送到了一所名为New Hyde的精神病院，里面满是被社会遗忘的人。Pepper想要获得自由，就必须面对与他作 对的病人、怀着阴森目的的医生，甚至恶魔本人。这里是地狱般的地方，任何事情都不是表面那样，Pepper必须直接面对一个以New Hyde里人们的苦痛来蓬勃壮大的存在，但这样可能会证明：最可怕的恶魔恰恰是他自己。
