The true story of Billy Hayes, an American college student who is caught smuggling drugs out of Turk...
The true story of Billy Hayes, an American college student who is caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey and thrown into prison.
On October 6, 1970 while boarding an international flight out of Istanbul Airport, American Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle 2 kilos of hashish out of the country, the drugs strapped to his body. He is told that he will be released if he cooperates with the authorities in identifying the peron who actually sold him the hash. Billy's troubles really begin when after that assistance, he makes a run for it and is recaptured. He is initially sentenced to just over four year for possession, with no time for the more harh crime of smuggling. The prison environment is inhospitable in every sene, with a sadistic prison guard named Hamidou ruling the prison, he who relishes the mental and physical torture he inflicts on the prisoner for whatever reason. Told to trust no one, Billy does befriend a few of the other inmates, namely fellow American Jimmy Booth (in for stealing two candlesticks from a mosque), a Swede named Erich, and one of the senior prisoner having already ...
