20 volunteers agree to take part in a seemingly well-paid experiment advertised by the university. It is supposed to be about aggressive behavior in an artificial prison situation. A journalist senses a story behind the ad and smuggles himself in among the test subjects. They are randomly divided into prisoners and guards. What seems like a game at the beginning soon turns into bloody seriousness.
Keywords: absurd , aggression , angry , antagonistic , audacious , authority , awestruck , baffled , based-on-novel-or-book , blackbox , critical , defiant , demeaning , dramatic , earnest , experiment , humiliation , imprisonment , journalist , manipulation , prison , prison-cell , prisoner , rape , scientific-study , test-person , torture