The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd

Synopsis

Karen is an English teacher trapped in an abusive marriage who takes a job at a maximum-security prison in Oklahoma teaching creative writing. There, she starts to fall for Wilson Shedd, a charismatic inmate and student in her class. The relationship between the two turns into a full-blown love story that sweeps Karen into a situation the unforeseeable consequences of which call into question not only the nature of punishment and retribution, but the very limits of our humanity.