Rural North Florida. August, 1952. In the stillness of a summer Sunday morning, a quiet, reticent young black woman named Coretta Daniels enters the offices of a prominent white physician and inexplicably shoots him to death. She is immediately arrested and hastily put on trial, with the State of Florida demanding nothing less than her execution in the electric chair. In an odd series of circumstances, Coretta's fate comes to rest in the hands of Jack Hunter, a white former county solicitor, and Randall McNeil, a black Harvard-educated defense attorney. Though different in every conceivable way, these two men must somehow find the means to overcome lifetimes of suspicion and prejudice before it is too late if they are to have even the remotest chance of saving Coretta from a racist judge, a State's Attorney out for blood vengeance, and the Southern Jim Crow justice system. Suggested by a true story.