Two ten years old's little girls were playing in a playground with an empty gun just found in a nearby bin. They were staging a fake murder when the one who hold the gun noticed a dead body lying between trash bags. The victim is a prison officer (a family man, with wife and three kids) who has just been promoted after 18 years spent inside the joint. But he's far from being an upstanding man: he's a rapist who take advantage of inmates at his own pleasure. He used to have sex with a black girl (Wunmi Mosaku) who spent her last three years in jail for smuggling drugs in the classic way (swallowing condoms full of heroin); anyway she has just been a decoy for the drug dealer, the classic pimp gangsta who knows well how to deal with poor girls from the hood (shiny cars, fancy clothes and so on).
Phillips has to work hard to step into convict's shoes. She's the only one able to do it, because they were both growing up in the same borough, full of housing projects inhabited by black people. Even if she was assaulted and nearly strangulated, she managed to gain her trust.
Phillips has to work hard to step into convict's shoes. She's the only one able to do it, because they were both growing up in the same borough, full of housing projects inhabited by black people. Even if she was assaulted and nearly strangulated, she managed to gain her trust.
