The ground-breaking soap set in a housing estate on the outskirts of Liverpool.

　　影片根据英国历史上最臭名昭著的囚犯迈克尔·皮特森的故事改编。1974年，一名叫做查尔斯·布朗森的少年结交了一些街头的混混朋友，沾染上了一些不良少年。在那个狂热、躁动的年纪里，他想让自己快点出名，所以在家里做了一把手枪，并且实施了一起邮局抢劫案。战利品一点也不丰厚——区区26英镑，但是他却为此付出了7年牢狱生活的代价。 　　之后，这个少年在监狱里不断犯事、不断被加刑。总共在监狱里呆了34年的他有30年是一个人在禁闭室里独自渡过的。影片着重描写了他的34年的牢狱生涯，在那里，斗殴就是他生活的全部。

Ben Turner runs a second-hand bookshop in a lovely English village, lives in a bed-and-breakfast run by his devoted wife, and has a perfect 7-year-old daughter. But the cracks in this idyllic world begin to show the day a local girl is murdered and the enigmatic Rachel Monroe appears. Rachel is convinced that Ben is the killer of her daughter who died 20 years earlier. She confronts him and demands to know where the body is—or else.