"Disillusioned from representing the guilty, Spencer Tallbridge signs on
as an assistant prosecutor looking for justice in the legal system, and
in an office renowned for capital case convictions. There, his early
idealism and country wisdom, garnered at his father's knee, collide with
unforseen realities of life and death for those facing the ultimate
penalty. With a clandestine effort and marshaling all his skills with
the examination of evidence, he sets out to assuage the grief and
unfounded guilt of a mother who blames herslf, the legal system and all
prosecutors for her only son's imminent execution. This he does by
setting out to prove her son's guilt beyond any doubt, and takes him to
places that test his ethics, his oath as an assistant prosecutor and his
father's admonition against 'grinding into the quick' to find the truth.
Spencer concludes in a dramatic turn of events that the death penalty is
a false promise of justice as only a farrier's can do."