Ben Hopper, an ethics investigator, going through marital problems, because he is allowing his job to come before his family, is on a challenging assignment. He must find out who impregnated Gloria Jean Stone, a naive 26-year-old woman, awaiting execution on death row. Ben, along with the warden and governor, has no doubt that it is one of the prison guards. Which one? Gloria Jean isn't telling and the prison guards are denying any involvement in her pregnancy. Ben, the warden, and the governor will leave it up to DNA testing to solve the mystery. But in their search to reveal the father, they discover something more shocking...