Set up to take the fall in a medical malpractice case by her doctor lover (Kôji Yashiro, THE HUNTER'S DIARY) - who had impregnated the patient! - Mayumi (Hitomi Kozue, OFFICE LADY DIARY: POACHING) is in no mood to make friends in the juvenile hall where female prisoners are kept until their court dates. She runs afoul of her cell's queen bee (Meika Seri, STREET OF JOY) and is given the "plucked chicken treatment" (think about it for a moment), but holds her own against her cellmates including baby-killing prostitute Rie (Tatsuya Hamaguchi, THE VANITY OF THE SHOGUN'S MISTRESS) and underage prostitute/crime of passion killer Harumi (Maya Hiromi, NUNS THAT BITE), not to mention a number of corrupt authority figures.

Not being too familiar with Japanese women-in-prison films (although the liner notes for this disc indicate there are few), it is difficult to glean whether some of the film's borrowings are directly from western examples (including a few men-in-prison films) or if they have been filtered through earlier Japanese takes on the material. The contrast of colorfully lit and designed flashbacks into the prisoners' backstories seems like a borrowing from Jess Franco's 99 WOMEN (and the queen bee character - prevalent in women in prison films - could be drawn from Franco's ILSA, THE WICKED WARDEN), while a shot of two female prisoners swapping cigarette smoke seems like a reference to Jean Genet's UN CHANT D'AMOUR, and the ending parallels Edward J. Forsythe's Canadian coda to CAGED MEN. Surprisingly, there is little abuse-of-authority exploitation scenes despite the many opportunities the guards and staff have to leer at and feel up the prisoners. Heroine Kozue would return for two follow-up Nikkatsu prison films.