It’s a hotter-than-usual April night in 1965. The social revolutions rocking America have mostly bypassed Burr, a tiny rural community in Western Oklahoma. Like much of the state, Burr remains the same as it’s been: Religious. Conservative. Football-crazy. And 100% white. When an anonymous young African-American woman is found murdered on the train tracks outside town, most residents would rather look away. Burr’s police chief, troubled former local football star and war hero Emmett Hardy, doesn’t have that luxury. A New Deal liberal in Goldwater Country at the height of the Civil Rights Era, Emmett is an outsider in a place he nevertheless knows like the back of his hand. Charged with finding the killer, Hardy’s search forces him to slice through layers of hypocrisy into the heart of a town that stubbornly ignores the hate staring it in the face—a hate that threatens to rot its collective soul.