Seth Hubbard has waited a long time for revenge. He was haunted his entire life by something terrible he saw as a child: and now he's dead, he's not going to let the past die with him. Disinheriting his wives and children, he has left his vast, secret fortune to his housemaid and appointed Clanton's famous lawyer, Jake Brigance, to uphold his last request. Now Jake must defend the will - whatever the cost...