Hank, an embittered prison guard working on Death Row in rural Georgia, begins an unlikely but emotionally charged affair with Laticia, the wife of a man he has just executed without knowing it.

• 思想偏激而种族歧视的死囚监督汉克，机缘巧合地遇上寡妇莉蒂莎，两人一见钟情。谁知莉的丈夫就是由汉所执行死刑之黑人囚犯。