Forty-six days in the summer of 1998 engulfed a state and the nation in a rural county's tense drama. A riveting saga of pain and prejudice, tragedy and redemption, plays out in Alabama's oldest town. Veteran Chicago reporter, Ted Logan, follows a tangled trail of vice and virtue while tracing the lives of colorful local characters. In the end, Logan sorts out raw truth and finally slays his own personal dragon.