When 17-year-old Braxton Jones is murdered, the gay community chorus director Dwight Kerry is wrongly accused. Led by a sinister pastor, the town's populace mounts against the accused, and homegrown defense attorney Ben Bailey must overcome his fear of losing his reputation and being exiled by his hometown to defend the "town gay"-- a man he knows is innocent. Ben fights to save Dwight from becoming the second victim of the heinous crime and free him from a death sentence that Ben is almost certain Dwight, as a gay man accused of murder in a small, Southern town, will face.