A good and decent woman has been beaten by someone she's loved and trusted ... now he's dead. Sometimes things are just the way they seem, but sometimes the truth can be obscured by whispered half-truths, averted gazes and by folks just not wanting to get involved. Will she now be forced to suffer through the efforts of other good and decent people in their search for justice, or will a broken spirit lead them all to redemption. The people of Shelbyville, Mississippi were about to walk in to the front end of the hardest, strangest days any of them had ever seen.