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A Nashville Times reporter teams up with a young aristocrat to solve a 20-year-old murder, encountering racism, corruption, and deception in this thriller inspired by actual events. Two decades after an African American teen is viciously murdered, his killer still walks free. But Matt Harper is a reporter with a reputation for sniffing out the facts, and he's determined to see that justice is served. Unfortunately for Matt, the truth can be a deadly commodity. Now as Matt's relationship with his fiancée begins to falter and his father falls ill with cancer, that cold case gets hot enough to burn anyone who touches it. Eric Roberts stars.