In 1964 Justice, MS, Coop Lindsay, a white attorney, is asked by an African American woman to help her grandson, who has been charged with rape and murder. The town is heavily divided over the issue, and, ultimately, Coop is killed and the defendant disappears. Fifty years later, Coop's grandson returns to the town to take on an eerily similar case. As he digs for the evidence, he finds clues to the identity of his grandfather's killer that will help...