Media Circus -- The Woman in the Road -- House Call -- Searching for Wheels -- Diving into the Wreck -- Signor Ferragamo, I Presume -- Habeas Corpus? -- Poolside Chat -- Out of the Mouths of Babes -- Found in Translation -- Clean--On the Outside -- The Lion's Den -- Saturday at the Mall -- Crumbs from the Table -- Family Picnic -- A Friend of the Family -- Spinning Wheels, Seeking Traction -- These Walls Do a Prison Make -- Power Dining -- Child in Mourning.

PI V.I. Warshawski of Chicago experiences the harrowing world of women's prisons when she is incarcerated after being falsely arrested. It happens while she is probing the murder of an illegal immigrant.