They spend the next 60 years developing a love-hate relationship and sniping obscenities at each other. Claude risks his own chances at freedom by attempting to free Ray from a barbed-wire fence. When a white warden's daughter gives birth to a black baby, several of the men claim to be the father in an attempt to protect the real dad from the warden's wrath. A scene in a diner reveals the terrible injustices of racism that could be found in America a half-century ago. Christian men and women host a Sunday morning church service for the prisoners.
Some sexual references mar the dialogue.
Several fistfights, men struck with the butts of guns, etc. A convict is shot dead by a guard while running into forbidden territory. The prisoners brag about violent crimes ranging from skinning someone to murdering Santa Claus. To impress their peers, Ray and Claude claim to be notorious serial killers. The old man retelling this tale is shown sipping moonshine.