Amos, Mississippi is a quiet town. Silas Jones is its sole police officer. Twenty years ago, a teenage girl disappeared on a date with Larry Ott. He was found not guilty, but he was shunned. Now, the peace is shattered when someone tries to kill Ott, another young woman goes missing, and the town's drug dealer is murdered. An unspoken secret hangs over the lives of two men - one black, one white.