A man is arrested and held for years without a trial under distressing prison conditions (rats, roaches, filth, and solitary confinement). There is a distressing scene when he realizes he'll probably never leave the hellish prison, and he makes a blood-curdling scream. He plots revenge without mercy. One person commits suicide by gun: we see him get a gun out, and then we hear the shot without seeing the weapon fire and without seeing the body or blood.