On a hot night in Florida, a young woman is brutally raped and murdered. Twenty years later, Jack Cade, the man convicted of her death, is released from prison - only days before another horrific crime: someone has murdered Cade's defense attorney. When the ex-con is arrested for the lawyer's murder, Louis is hired by the man's son who believes his father is innocent of the lawyer's murder - and of the old crime as well. Louis follows a long-buried trail that connects the two murders, a trail that leads him to a web of family lies and twisted loyalty.