On Valentines Day 1993, 17-year-old Bethel High School basketball star Allen Iverson was bowling in Hampton, Va., with five high school friends. It was supposed to be an ordinary evening, but it became a night that defined Iversons young life. A quarrel soon erupted into a brawl pitting Iversons young black friends against a group of white patrons. he fallout from the fight and the handling of the subsequent trial landed the teenager-considered by some the nations best high school athlete-in jail and sharply divided the city along racial lines. Steve James (Hoop Dreams) returns to his hometown of Hampton, where he once played basketball, to take a personal look at this still-disputed incident and examine its impact on Iverson and the shared community.

After the horrific death of his wife and two sons, suicide seems to be the only escape for small town attorney Kent "Mac" McClain... until he's assigned a capital punishment case that begins to transform his life and those around him forever.

After the horrific death of his wife and two sons, suicide seems to be the only escape for small town attorney Kent Mac McClain... until hes assigned a capital punishment case that begins to transform his life and those around him forever.