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An inexperienced white lawyer defends a black man who killed the man who raped and murdered his daughter. With the case regenerating the racial animosities of the small Southern town, his defense team, including his alcoholic former law professor and a pretty law student, moves forward amid a boiling atmosphere of animosity, and ultimately puts the young lawyer's life in danger.