A 10-year-old African American girl is attacked and raped by two white adult men. When the girl is found, her father remembers another racially-motivated attack against an African American girl in a nearby town, for which her four assailants were acquitted. The rest of the film's plot revolves around his attempt to bring his daughter's attackers to justice. The main female character gets kidnapped, tied up, and her clothes torn off (underwear still on). She is told that she is gonna be left there until she dies but someone comes and rescues her by putting a jacket over her then cutting her free with a knife.