At the Old Bailey, James Rainbow is sentenced to a year in prison on charge of causing GBH. It is his first conviction, for he is not a criminal but a man goaded into violence by jealousy over his girlfriend, Wendy. In prison, Rainbow is shocked by the indignities of duties imposed on him such as ‘pot-carrying’, but he is assigned to the kitchen gang where he soon becomes a part of their elaborate ‘fiddles’ – stealing food and selling it on for luxuries such as tobacco. As the final big ‘fiddle’ comes in for one of the inmates who is about to be released, it all goes horribly wrong and Rainbow must decide whether to make the ultimate sacrifice for one of his new friends.

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