Лерой Лоу, страшный расист и активист техасского Ку-клукс-клана, приговорен к трем годам каторжных работ на тюремной ферме. Уорден Мервилл, решительно настроенный на перевоспитание Лероя, выбирает ему в сокамерники Эмилио, латиноамериканского рабочего, попавшего в тюрьму за борьбу за права трудящихся.

《狱友》讲述了三K党领袖勒罗伊在德克萨斯州监狱里的别样人生。他先是遇到了有着训话强迫症的监狱长，接着又来了位发型奇怪的话唠狱友，正当他认为自己就要这样度过余生时，一位有着天才厨艺的女看守出现在他生命中，一切开始悄然改变...

Den ene är en fruktad Ku Klux Klan-ledare, den andre en livlig pratkvarn från Mexiko. Vad händer när världens mest osannolika par tvingas dela fängelsecell? "Cellmates" är en fängslande skrattfest om fördomar, vänskap och andra chanser i livet, med en skön blandning stjärnor i rollistan.

Leroy Lowe, grand dragon of the Texas Ku Klux Klan confronts everything he's been taught to hate when he's sentenced to three years of hard labor on a prison work farm, where Warden Merville, dead set on rehabilitating Leroy, chooses Emilio, a Hispanic field worker imprisoned for fighting for labor rights, to be his cell-mate. Leroy, confined in a small cell with the enemy, far from the KKK comrades who deserted him, finds the chatty Emilio slowly chipping away at his anger and prejudice. His weekly rehabilitation meetings with the warden, barely tolerable as the man drones on about farm labor and field crops, take on a different meaning when Madalena, a beautiful Mexican maid is hired to clean the warden's office. An unconventional love story develops that opens Leroy's eyes to the possibility of a different life. And a man who was a born and bred racist finds himself heading down a completely different path to salvation.