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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.


When their parents died at birth, three sisters were sent to orphanages and were later adopted into three different homes with different backgrounds. When one of the sisters gets sent to prison for killing her stepmother, but one of the other two sisters tell officials she committed the crime to save her sister from going to jail. The youngest sister forges evidence to save them both, but gets caught and gets sent to jail, too. This television series uses women in jail as its storyline, describing the dark side of women in prison.

Louisa So Yuk-Wah
Yim Pui-Woo / Yeung Choi-Yiu

Kristal Tin Yui-Nei
Kong Lai-Nga / Yeung Choi-Yue

Leila Tong
So Fei / Yeung Choi-Lam

Sunny Chan Kam-Hung
Yin Leung

Jack Wu
Ma Hak

Nancy Wu
Yip Chi-Shan

Ben Wong
Cheung Chi-Hoi

Mannor Chan Man-Na

Eileen Yeow

Chan Wing-Chun
Phoenix Rising is a drama series that first aired in 2007 exploring themes of prison, women's prison, sisterhood, ethical, modern drama. it stars Louisa So Yuk-Wah, Kristal Tin Yui-Nei, Leila Tong. When their parents died at birth, three sisters were sent to orphanages and were later adopted into three different homes with different backgrounds. When one of the sisters gets sent to prison for killing her stepmother, but one of the other two sisters tell officials she committed the crime to save her sister from going to jail. The youngest sister forges evidence to save them both, but gets caught and gets sent to jail, too. This television series uses women in jail as its storyline, describing the dark side of women in prison.
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