In the 1940s South, an African-American man is wrongly accused of the killing a a white store owner. In his defense, his white attorney equates him with a lowly hog, to indicate that he didn't have the sense to know what he was doing. Nevertheless convicted, he is sentenced to die, but his godmother and the aunt of the local schoolteacher convince school teacher go to the convicted man's cell each day to try to reaffirm to him that he is not an animal but a man with dignity.
as Grant Wiggins
as Tante Lou
as Jefferson
as Miss Emma
as Reverend Ambrose
as Vivian Baptiste
as Edna Guidry
as Sheriff Guidry
as Henri Pichot
as Farrell Jarreau
as Clarence
as Louis Washington
as Inez
as Irene
