Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the small town ways of his partner, a former sheriff.

Top Cast

Gene HackmanAgent Rupert Anderson

Willem DafoeAgent Alan Ward

Frances McDormandMrs. Pell

Brad DourifDeputy Clinton Pell

R. Lee ErmeyMayor Tilman

Gailard SartainSheriff Stuckey

Stephen TobolowskyTownley

Michael RookerFrank Bailey