OMAR & PETE are determined to change their lives. Both had been in and out of prison for more than 30 years – never out longer than six months. This intimate and penetrating film follows these two long-time friends for several years after what they hope will be their final prison release. In that time, their lives take divergent paths as one wrestles with addiction and fear while the other finds success and freedom through helping others.

John Lyshitski likes to steal cars, has a weed problem, and has been in Illinois' Rossmore State Penitentiary so many times, he knows the entire population of both staff and cons by name. Cursed with being in the wrong place, at the wrong time, in possession of the wrong car, he's a repeat offender who has been deemed a lost cause. When the heartless judge, who has been behind most of his sentences, goes to the big court house in the sky, John decides...

A paroled burglar tries to get a job and keep on the straight-and-narrow. His hard-core parole officer has different ideas and sends him back to jail. When he gets out again, he goes after the parole officer, steals his car, and returns to crime.

Habitual offender Norman Stanley Fletcher is doing five years or porridge at HM Slade Prison. He passes the time sharing his wealth of experience with his fellow inmates, particularly naive, young first-time offender Lennie whom Fletch takes under his fatherly wing. Widely considered to be one of the greatest British sitcoms of all time.