Actress Taylor Schilling is Piper Chapman, whose life is messed up when, already thirty-year – old and ready to marry her lover (Jason Biggs), she is sent to prison for a crime committed in her youth. At the end of her university and in love with the beautiful Alex (Laura Prepon), Piper agrees, in the spirit of adventure, to carry a suitcase of her to Brussels. He is thus involved in a drug trafficking network and, pleading guilty at trial, receives 15 months in prison at a women’s prison. Beautiful, cultured, with a varied social life and about to launch her own business, Piper will wake up among dozens of common-law inmates.