Lawyer Bryan Stevenson (Michael B. Jordan) has just
graduated from Harvard with a law degree, which means there’s only one clear
course of action to take one. That’s right, Stevenson is going to move down to
Alabama and create a non-profit law firm that specializes in providing free
legal services to death row inmates. It’s a crusade that’s highly unorthodox,
to put it gently, especially considering Stevenson is a Black man trying to
fight against a justice system that inherently sees people of color as immediately
guilt. However, Stevenson wants to use his lawyer's gifts to help the most
underserved of American citizens. After all, these are not inhuman monsters,
but people who could be anybody. Heck, Stevenson himself observes to his Mother
at one point that “It could have been me, Mama”
