In a villa of a secret remote location a prison experiment takes place. The five highly intelligent convicts are only guarded by their implanted microchips and a red line that frames the villa and triggers lethal electrocution. Still, not one of them would try to cease their imprisonment anyway and although they hate each other they remain attached to their leader Dr James Hoffman, an incurably romantic Intellectual. When dysfunctional Malcolm Cherry and Rita Hopper from the Prison Inspectorate arrive for an unannounced visit they face mass hostility, on top of their own problems. Gentle Malcolm is going through a major crisis and Rita a powerful, sexually frustrated woman tries desperately to hold him up. The effects of mixing this crowd together turns out to be electrifying in funny and tragic ways.