Before there was Newtown and Shady Hook Elementary. . . Before there was Columbine. . . There was Morgantown. Morgantown Consolidated High School. 1969. A student takes a gun to school and murders one of his teachers in front of a classroom filled with students. Criminal defense lawyer A.J. Garrison finds herself appointed to defend the boy. It's her first capital murder trial, and she's going to lose. No doubt about it. The only real question for Garrison is can she save her client from the electric chair?