Set in fictitious Fort Nix this drama presents, through a strong anti-military message, the supposed abuses that go on inside the United States military stockades as it tells the prisoners' tales.

An American soldier sent to Vietnam goes AWOL and returns to his hometown. His parents turn him over to military authorities. He is court-martialled and sent to the toughest military prison in the US - the Army Stockade of the Presidio base near San Francisco. There he is subjected to horrendous treatment. He, along with others, spoke out about the treatment of prisoners.—Fryingham