The Heist

A prison system that does not regenerate, it degenerates.

A grim, claustrophobic portrait of institutional degradation and human desperation in a Mexican prison, where addiction, confinement, and systemic brutality collide.

In Mexico City's infamous Lecumberri prison, three drug-addicted convicts celebrate getting drugs from one of their the mothers. They are found out and locked up in the "apando," the dreaded punishment cell. Protests over the treatment of those held in the cell lead to a bloody confrontation.