Includes interviews with nine men and three women who have been given sentences of life for murder. Of the 12 people sentenced for life, some are living out in the community on licence, but with the prospect of instant recall to prison at any time. Others are still in prison, with no hope of release yet for many years to come. All of them have killed other human beings; and they talk honestly, painfully and directly about themselves and their crime, describing how they came to commit murder, and what being a murderer means.