Milo Addica

Hank and Leticia inhabit stark, queasy realities of the contemporary South, he as a death row corrections officer and she as the soon-to-be widow of an inmate whose execution Hank helps conduct. In the aftermath of the execution, both lose their children to tragic deaths and they form an unlikely bond.

Hank, a racist death-row prison guard, begins to question his beliefs when he falls in love with Leticia, the African American wife of a man he has just executed.