1974年的西班牙仍处于佛朗哥的独裁统治中,年轻女子露西亚因为反政府罪名被判十年徒刑,关进了马德里郊区的一间装满杀人犯、流氓的高度设防监狱里。虽然食物不足够,到处都是暴力、性虐待和告密者,露西亚仍找到生存的乐趣,坚强地面对一切问题。Madrid, 1974. Former women's jail of Yeserias. Lucia, a girl well situated in society, is condemned to spend ten years in jail due to her relation with a politic militant against Franco's dictatorship. While being in prison she lives with every kind of woman: intelectuals, killers, illiterates, ... All of them must share food, living space, joys and pities; joined by the same fate, lack of freedom, they will have to fight together against desperation. Lucia is willing o live, to learn form that world the fate has given to her where, on the contrary to what she imagines, tenderness and laugh exist. And also the complicity and solidarity of some women living an experience which will mark them for ever.