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A high security prison doesn’t seem like a place you’d ask to go. But that’s where Treasure Lee wants to be transferred, thinking she’ll find the mother she never met.

Hardened by years of imprisonment, Brownie has a new family with a wife and daughters who work for her, dealing drugs and paying off the guards.

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She will prove to be as hard on Treasure as on her adopted daughters.
A filmmaker and a professor at UCLA, Cheryl Dunye has taught in women’s prisons. This is certainly what makes the film so « real, » with documentary-like scenes that the precise dialogues and tightly structured scenario never belie.

Cheryl Dunye tried to depict the corruption, violence, racism and loneliness of this ruthless environment without inflicting it on her characters, never allowing the camera to become a voyeuristic instrument of oppression.

Sex is also part of the picture. But there are no rape or love stories for these women whose homosexuality is just a fact of