Alan and Sylvia fall in love and Alan gains a renewed sense of purpose. He begins to hope for an eventual release on licence. However both he and Sylvia have to face the fact that, for the foreseeable future, they cannot enjoy any physical intimacy. They decide to treat their affair as a long Victorian courtship.—GusF
Knockback is based on a true story about the first man to be sentenced to life imprisonment in the UK for murder following the abolition of capital punishment. Female prison worker Sylvia falls in love with Alan, who spends most of his sentence in solitary confinement. She lobbies Parliament on his behalf, and after seventeen years, he is released.—James Malone