Adriano is a correctional officer who has to endure the difficulties of life in incarceration: his own and the prisoners' lives.

Adriano is a correctional officer in charge of locking and controlling all access to the jail cells. A respectable man who is averse to violence, his words are his greatest weapon. They are used to ensure a minimum of tranquility in the workplace, while dilemmas at home take on unexpected proportions, even for someone who is used to dealing with high-stress situations. In addition to the risks he faces at prison, Adriano must still find a way to deal with pressure from his wife, who wants to have a baby, as as well as his teenage daughter and his former-jailer father. Tested daily with ethical and moral dilemmas, he lives between walls and prison bars, weapons, threats, and conflicts--human and, especially, psychological ones.

"Jailers" explores the Brazilian penitentiary system from the viewpoint of guard Adriano, an honest man against any type of violence who uses words as his great weapon while attempting to keep the workplace peaceful. If all the conflicts within the prison were not enough, Adriano must also deal with the impact that the dramas of his profession end up causing with his own family relationships.