Young law student LuAnn Haley is back home in South Alabama for the summer break when she befriends a visiting journalist, encouraging him to seek out evidence about the town’s infamous unsolved civil rights murder. He does, but, she is shocked to learn, the evidence leads right to her beloved father, now a candidate for Governor. When her father is indicted for murder, LuAnn defends him until family secrets cause her to reassess her faith in her father as well as her views about herself.