The Escapist

Jungpilot Denis muss den Mord an seiner hochchwangeren Ehefrau durch ein sadistisches Räubertrio mitansehen. Traumatisiert lässt er daraufhin Beruf und Familie hinter sich, um sein Leben nur mehr der Rache an jenen Tätern zu widmen, deren Anführer nun auf der Gefängnisinsel Sullen Voe schmort. Denis verbirgt seine Identität und beginnt eine Tournee durch die Gefängnisse des Landes, bis er endlich nach dem x-ten Ausbruchsversuch auch in Sullen Voe landet. Doch seine Nemesis zeigt sich gewappnet. Fesselndes, durchgehend spannendes und stimmungsvolles Gangsterkino mit Jonny Lee Miller.

Denis Hopkins, a pilot, lives with his pregnant wife Valerie and has a comfortable lifestyle. When a gang of criminals led by the sadistic Ricky Barnes breaks into his home, he offers whatever the criminals want to protect his wife and unborn child, but the evil Ricky kills Valerie anyway. Their baby is saved, and later Barnes is arrested and sentenced to life in the maximum security prison, Sullen Voe. Denis fakes his own suicide, then assaults a police car in order to get himself arrested and sent to prison with the intention of tracking down and killing Ricky Barnes. He does not reveal his true name and is called John "What" by the prisoners and guards. Denis escapes from successive prisons, forcing his eventual transfer to Sullen Voe. When he reaches his objective, Ricky Barnes schedules a confrontation, but things do not quite turn out the way Denis had expected.