When a security guard is killed and another injured during a brazen shooting in a Chicago McDonald's, police pull out all the stops to find who did it. Alton Logan is soon swept up, charged, and convicted of the crime, even though he's entirely innocent. Worse, he gets word that the real killer has been caught and confessed, but that attorney-client privilege will prevent the truth from ever being heard. To get free, must battle a system that repeatedly condemns him.
—Joe Woodward