Twenty-six years ago, when she was only three months old, Jody Linder\'s father was murdered as she slept in her cot. Her mother vanished, presumed dead. Local trouble-maker Billy Crosby confessed to the murder and was locked up, leaving his wife and son to face the consequences in the small Kansas town of Rose....

\\\"Curtis Colt didn\"t kill that liquor store woman, and that\"s a fact. It\"s not right that he should have to ride the lightning - that\"s what prisoners call dying in the electric chair. Curtis doesn\"t belong in it, and I can prove it\\\". But can Curtis\"s girlfriend prove it?...