Beyond the Walls follows Georgina through the houses of prostetion, the jails, and the streets of the real Canada of the ninteen fifities. It includes the illicit sexual attentions of the child sexual abuser of her childhood. He became the barrier of her adult attempts to live normally in a world that was anything but normal. Her lack of education her inability to understand the outside world set her up for failure as a psychiatrist explained it to her later.