With his execution just 48 hours away, death row inmate Anthony Porter’s
life was saved by a journalism class. Their re-investigation of the
crime for which he was convicted—a double homicide in a Chicago park—led
to the discovery of the real killer, Alstory Simon, whose confession
exonerated Porter. But in this powerful and moving documentary, the
filmmakers discover that the freed Porter was most likely guilty and
that Simon was an innocent man, and that both are just pawns in a much
larger plan…