Unjustly imprisoned after growing up in orphanages and reform schools, Frank Canizio became known as an escape artist. His daring but futile attempts to find and exploit the weak spots in prison walls only added years to his sentence. Finally, after encouragement from the words of Emerson, a guiter inherited from an older prisoner, a Catholic Father's faith and self-study, he appealed his own case -- a complicated record of errors and misrepresentations. He won.