In a small southern town in the 1960s, a black man awaits trial for murdering the two rednecks who viciously raped his 10-year-old daughter. A young, idealistic white lawyer takes up the father's defense, and the incendiary case becomes a firestorm of racism and controversy, ripping the town apart. Based on John Grisham's bestselling first novel. PLEASE NOTE SOME OF OUR STOCK IS DOUBLE SIDED - PLEASE FLIP THE DISC TO VIEW THE SECOND HALF OF THE FILM