Mark Dietrich, a former yuppie, celebrates his first night of freedom after spending fifteen years in prison for murdering a young woman. Laura, his mother, rushes to reveal new information to detective Ted Marston: she is, in fact, sure that her son was involved, in the 1980s, in an attack that went wrong and killed four black men to prison. The next morning, Laura is found dead, brutally murdered. Suspicion immediately falls on Mark…