Suburbanite Ron is young and not too worried about the marijuana charges leveled against him. However, after being forced to be a drug dealer, he confronts a jail sentence in San Quentin State Prison. Physically frail and unkind into his surroundings that are rough, Ron is primed to fall victim to predators and bullying defenses until he is befriended a veteran inmate who discovers meaning in protecting the new young child, by Earl.