Set in 1964 Mississippi, a seasoned FBI agent and his fresh out of school partner use wildly divergent tactics when investigating the disappearance of three civil rights activists by the Ku Klux Klan.
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 former Sheriff partner.