Seventy-year-old Sam Cayhall is on Mississippi’s death row for a terrible crime he com mitted many years ago. Sam hates lawyers and wants to handle the final stages of the legal process himself His date with the gas chamber is suddenly frighteningly close, and time seems to be running out for him. T hen a young lawyer, Adam Hall, arrives and tries to persuade Sam that he needs his help. Adam brings w ith him a secret which may make the old man change his mind.