RIOT portrays the impact of a harsh, high security atmosphere where relationships between officers and inmates become polarized, tensions increase and the predatory culture of physical and psychological violence escalates with a dramatic protest. Inmates barricade the doors, cells are ransacked and a fire is lit. When the high tech security fails Prison Officer Field is forced to confront his own morality as the officers around him fail to take action. Field must step up and put his life on the line for those he loathes and fears.