 In 1996, there is a triple homicide in a dinning place, and Sergeant Larry Starczek is in charge of the investigation. His lover, the ambitious prosecuting attorney Muriel Wynn, follows him and they get the name of a suspect. The smalltime crook Romeo  Squirrel  Gandolph is arrested, confesses the crime and is sentenced to the death row. Seven years later, Muriel is married and has had a meteoric professional ascension in her career; Starczek is retired; and the judge of the case Gillian Sullivan has just been released from prison after the accusation of bribery. A couple of weeks before the execution of Squirrel, the corporate lawyer Arthur Raven is assigned by his associates to defend Squirrel for free as a part of a political marketing. However, the confession of a cancerous prisoner assuming that he had committed the murder reopens the case exposing secrets and wounds.