Based on the story of Karen Silkwood who is poisoned by plutonium in the Kerr-McGee Nuclear plant, where she works. She speaks out against the plant's safety hazards and loses her job, many of her friends, and her life in a mysterious accident.

Myrlie Evers has fought for years to see the man who murdered her husband, African-American civil rights worker Medgar Evers, brought to justice. Yet, after two hung juries and 30 years, justice has not come. Finally, in the 1990s, a brave lawyer reopens the case to fight for the conviction of the murderer.