A film composed of images from prisons. Quotes from fiction films and documentaries as well as footage from surveillance cameras. A look at the new control technologies, at personal identification devices, electronic ankle bracelets, electronic tracking devices. The cinema has always been attracted to prisons. Today's prisons are full of video surveillance cameras which shows the norm and reckon with deviations from it. Here the prison appears as a site of sexual infraction, a site where human beings must create themselves as people and as workers. In newer prisons contemporary video surveillance technology aims at demystification.