Elena Cruz (Yesenia Ayala) has not had an easy life. As a child, her father Condor (Danny Pardo) was busted for stealing from his boss, Maeve (Heather McComb). She gave him pretty much Sophie’s choice.* After she slices his wife’s throat, she demands that he choose which child to kill, either his son Lucas or his daughter Elena. He yells that he chooses his son, so she shoots him in the face.

Years later, Elena gets arrested robbing a bodega all to go to prison, all to get close to Maeve before she’s pardoned for good behavior thanks to a corrupt system. Can she get in, get close and get revenge?

Directed by Steven R. Monroe (who has also made Teardrop, Unborn, First Person Shooter and Harland Manor for Tubi, as well as the remake of I Spit On Your Grave) and written by Jordan Robinson (Trap House, Requiem for a Scream), this has all of the women in prison puzzle pieces, like Feltcher the perverted guard (Jason Wiles), the older and wiser prisoner who helps our heroine named Trudy (Elizabeth Haley), the tough prisoner who our heroine battles (Rebekah Tripp), the gang that beats her in the shower, the tough prison lover of the villain (Jasmine Shanise) and the librarian who knows the system (Stephanie Maura Sanchez).

But if you’re expecting a titillating WIP movie, well, this isn’t it. It’s about how far someone will go for revenge, how far a father will go to be forgiven and how bad humanity can be. That said, it has one scene where the perverted prison guard gets what’s coming to him. If the movie kept up that level of roughness the whole time, it’d be so much better.

You can watch this on Tubi.

*Is that why Elena takes the name Sofia when she goes to jail?