A young pencil factory worker in Atlanta, Georgia, was found murdered. Factory manager Leo Frank is accused of murdering the girl, although no direct evidence has been found. Another person, a black janitor from the same factory, could have committed the murder, but the court, yielding to public opinion, is inclined to consider the Jew Frank as the criminal... David Mamet (b. 1947), an American playwright, essayist and novelist, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, conveys the borderline with amazing skill. with madness the state of the accused during the trial and after the verdict, serving the first months of a life sentence and not suspecting what terrible fate awaits him in the near future.