When Lily stumbles upon the well-built corpse of a local body
builder-his neck broken by a barbell-the town's underlying racial
tension begins to boil over. The white victim was somehow connected
to two unsolved murders of black residents of Shakespeare-and a
dogged policeman is determined to stop the killing. But it is Lily
herself who may have to decide whether to stay and fight for
justice, or run away one more time.
