Complex sentence: The film opens in 1936, New York City, where Billie Holiday (Diana Ross) is being placed under arrest at the NYPD police station, Billie is then finger-printed, covered into a straight jacket and is locked up in a jail cell.
Split into simpler sentences: The film opens in 1936, New York City, where Billie Holiday (Diana Ross) is being placed under arrest at the NYPD police station. She is finger-printed, put into a straight jacket and is locked up in a jail cell.