In this powerful, thought - provoking true story, recent Harvard graduate Bryan Stevenson passes up lucrative jobs to defend those wrongly condemned in Alabama. Supported by local advocate Eva Ansley, he quickly picks up the incendiary case of Walter McMillian, a death-row inmate convicted of a notorious murder. Facing illegal and political labyrinth and unabashed racism, Bryan fights for Walter and others like him in a system stacked against them.