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Mississippi, 1946.
Pete Banning was the hero of the town of Klanton, an ideal southerner - a war veteran, a faithful husband, a loved father of two children, believing a Christian, a successful farmer, a good neighbor.
But once in the autumn morning, Pete Banning got up early, arrived in the city ... and calmly killed the parish priest Dexter Bell. And the only thing he speaks of interrogations in the police and his lawyer: I have nothing to say.
Banning defender understands: the veteran is really ready to go to an electric chair rather than explain the reason that pushed him to the crime. And the only chance to save the client from execution is to find out what made him commit a terrible act