
“In 1950’s Oklahoma, the Supreme Court judgment declaring segregation unconstitutional is in its infancy. Against the backdrop of this momentous event, young Black man Woody Coats is wrongly accused of raping a teenage Mexican girl. The only two witnesses in his favor—Harry True and Bliss Farrell—are hesitant to come to his rescue; doing so will expose their secret affair, a potential disaster given that Bliss is the wife of Harry’s best friend. Torn between personal loyalties and doing the right thing, Harry and Bliss attempt to navigate their moral quandary in a town divided by racism and injustice….”