In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.

A crime she committed in her youthful past sends Piper Chapman to a women's prison, where she trades her comfortable New York life for one of unexpected camaraderie and conflict in an eccentric group of fellow inmates.

At the end of the Civil War, a General's son returns home after jumping the draft, and in the midst of a raucous victory celebration attempts to reckon with all the scars and ghosts of the War, a home and a country he can barely recognize.