Jan Banning's case study of the United States criminal justice system and of mass incarceration delves into a three-decade-old murder case in Georgia. On 14 April 1992, twenty-two-year-old Christina Boyer was arrested.

Combining documentary and staged frames with texts, the book unravels the role of the media, presents analyses by medical professionals, and gives Banning's own visual interpretation of elements of the story. He invited the subject of the project to be an active participant: Boyer allowed him to disclose pages from her diaries, and gives viewers an insight into her inner world by writing her associations with his pictures from Georgia, showing how such an incarceration influences one's perception of the visual world. Stylistically the book refers to film noir, to nineteenth-century Romantic landscape and to seventeenth-century vanitas still life, and poses deep questions about objectivism against subjectivism.