A prison in upstate New York is a place you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy. Strict discipline, separation from loved ones, constant humiliation are just a small part of what young prisoners have to face. Ori Sperling, a fourteen-year-old ballerina convicted of a crime she didn't commit, knows this firsthand. But who cares about her life? The fate of the inhabitants of Aurora Hills is unenviable. But one day everything changes: mystically, every August, the same picture is repeated in the prison - the locks open in the cells, the girls get freedom, and then...And then something happens that will torment the souls of the people who witnessed those events for a long time.