Based on a true story, another film involving racial discrimination, it is thought-provoking.
The protagonist graduates from Harvard Law School, but voluntarily goes to a small town in Alabama to set up a legal aid agency in the area to investigate unjust, false and wrongly decided cases of death row inmates. The main story revolves around saving a black man who has been falsely accused of killing a white girl.
In so-called liberal democracies, this dark decay makes beating a confession insignificant. And the mercy of justice sometimes arrives late, sometimes never.
