Summary

Based on real events, this award-winning legal drama set in 1950s Australia follows the efforts of small-town public defender David O'Sullivan (Robert Carlyle) and his partner (Kerry Fox) to exonerate an Aboriginal man (David Ngoombujarra) accused of raping and murdering a young white girl. The high-profile, strongly divisive case cleaved the nation into two distinct camps -- "guilty" and "not guilty" -- and exposed longstanding racial prejudice.