The Chamber

Having survived the hatred and bigotry that was
his Klansman grandfather's only legacy, young
attorney Adam Hall seeks at the last minute to
appeal the old man's death sentence for the murder
of two small Jewish boys 30 years before. Only
four weeks before Sam Cayhall is to be executed,
Adam meets his grandfather for the first time in
the Mississippi prison which has held him since
the crime. The meeting is predictably tense when
the educated, young Mr. 'Hall confronts his
venom-spewing elder, Mr. 'Cayhall, about the
murders. The next day, headlines run proclaiming
Adam the grandson who has come to the state to
save his grandfather, the infamous Ku Klux Klan
bomber. While the old man's life lies in the
balance, Adam's motivation in fighting this battle
becomes clear as the story unfolds. Not only does
he fight for his grandfather, but perhaps for
himself as well. He has come to heal the wounds of
his own father's suicide, to mitigate the secret
shame he has always felt for the genetic fluke
which made this man his grandfather, and to bring
closureone way or anotherto the suffering
the old man seems to have brought to everyone he
has ever known. But, would mercy soften his
grandfather's heart?