The film is a loose adaptation of the 1987 novel "The Penal Colony" by Richard Herley. In the novel, the British government runs prison island for convicts from it's mainland prisons. On those prison islands, new arrivals are dumped on the islands by helicopters, where they must learn to survive and satellites are used to keep an eye on the convicts. A man named Anthony John Routledge, wrongly convicted of a sex-murder, which he didn't do, is dumped on "Sert", a prison island off the north Cornish coast and he soon learns not all the convicts on the prison island are savage and discovers a community of resourceful men led by one man and he sets out to forget the rules of living a civilized life.

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