If you have committed a violent crime, is it possible to redeem yourself? In 'What I Want My Words to Do to You', women inmates at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women try to answer the question. In a writing workshop led by playwright Eve Ensler, the women in the group include high-profile convicts like Kathy Boudin and Judy Clark, former members of the Weather Underground. Through a series of writing exercises and discussions, the deeply personal mixes with the humorous and the tragic, profoundly showing the power of art in the service of healing. The film culminates in an unprecedented prison performance of the women's writings by Glenn Close, Marisa Tomei, Hazelle Goodman, Mary Alice and Rosie Perez.