In between caring for her mother, a young woman works part time at a prison. The rookie guard gets a chance to prove her mettle when she's tasked with accompanying a hell-raising inmate on an emergency furlough to visit her dying mother. But things soon spiral out of control, sending the pair on a hilarious, surprising, and ultimately touching road trip.

A love-starved soldier stationed at an Arctic base wins a furlough in Paris, but a pretty, no-nonsense military psychologist is ordered to accompany him as chaperone to keep him out of trouble.

讲述了四个囚犯在48小时休假期间的故事，讲述了他们的现实生活，以及他们是如何被关进监狱的。四个不同年龄段的人物，三个男人和一个女人:路易吉，多纳托，罗莎娜和安杰洛，描述了他们的矛盾,他们的绝望,以及逃生的诱惑,但也讲述了一个父亲对儿子的爱,一个女人对朋友的爱，最重要的是失去了个人的尊严和骄傲。