Each and all of us have to undergo the same life cycle: being born, growing up, and leading the chosen course of life until the end of our time on this world.
Dao was life sentenced from the guilty of murder at first degree which changed her world upside down, once young bright graduate with prosperous future with her boyfriend turned to be a convict in Area 8. Although the tough living among brutal seniority system and bad fellow inmates who keep taking advantages over her, she found the sincere friendships among convicts, the true companionships from friends who live outside.