Lucas Smothers nineteen & from the wrong end of town has been arrested for the rape & murder of a local girl. His lawyer Billy Bob Holland is convinced of Lucass innocence but proving it means unearthing the truth from a seething mass of deceit & corruption. A corruption endemic in the way it can be only in a gossipy small town where everybody knows everybody elses business. Billy Bobs relationship with Lucass family is not an easy one
- years back he was a close friend of Mrs Smothers too close according to her husband Vernon. & when Lucas overhears gruesome tales of serial murder from a neighbouring cell in the local lock-up the waters are muddied even further & Lucas himself looks like a candidate for an untimely death.