Cell Block 4

Alberto Sarlo an attorney and writer from La Plata embarks on a utopian project to teach philosophy literature and boxing to 52 convicts from Cell Block 4 in a maximum security prison located in Florencio Varela in the outskirts of Buenos Aires Carlos Kongo Mena an inmate who has just been released returns to the jail as Sarlos assistant providing his perspective somewhat closer to that of the reality of the other inmates Alberto succeeds in turning Carlos into the first exconvict hired to teach at Buenos Aires prisons For many of them he is proof that redemption is indeed possible