A federal investigation into civil rights murders exposes deep local corruption and forces a strategic pivot from state to federal jurisdiction.
Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the small town ways of his partner, a former sheriff.
Alan Parker
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