For every innocent man sent to prison, there is a guilty one left on the outside. Travis Boyette is such a man. In 1998, in the small East Texas city of Sloan, he abducted and murdered a high school cheerleader. He buried her body so that it would never be found, then watched in amazement as police and prosecutors arrested and convicted Donté Drumm, a local football star, and marched him off to death row. Now nine years have passed. Travis has just been paroled in Kansas for a different crime; Donté is four days away from his execution. Travis suffers from an inoperable brain tumor. For the first time in his miserable life, he decides to do what's right and confess. But the question is how can a guilty man convince lawyers, judges, and politicians that they're about to execute an innocent man.