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In the mid-1990s, two inmates bury the burned bodies of two lifers at
Mississippi’s infamous Parchman Farm; a third old-timer relates their
story. They’d served 65 years for a murder they didn’t commit, framed by
a local sheriff while buying moonshine whiskey for a Manhattan club
owner to whom they owed money. In flashbacks we see this odd couple
thrown together (Ray is a fast-talking con man, and Claude is a serious
man about to start work as a bank teller), the loss of Ray’s watch
(sterling silver, from his daddy), the murder and trial, the hardships
of Parchman, and the love-hate relationship of Claude and Ray as they
spend 65 years bickering and looking for a way to escape.
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