Emerging from the deep, dark, and impoverished streets of South Queens, New York, Othir Brister escaped violence, drugs, and pervasive gang activity, only to become engulfed in a prison's hostile underground world. He learned that if a person can not change his physical imprisonment by changing his mental enslavement, he will be forever enslaved. But if he changes his mental confinement then he is in fact free of incarceration.