R: Hit First, Hit Hardest

"R: Hit First, Hit Hardest" is a visceral and tense prison drama filmed with a cast made up of ex-convicts and guards showing what life is really like behind bars in a tough penitentiary. Prisoner R finds himself serving a sentence for violent assault. It is his first conviction, but he ends up with hard-core lifers in a world filled with rules, honours and debts to be paid. A world in which bars cover the windows and blood stains the floor. He must find his place in the system, learn to navigate, and fight for his survival.