A working mother puts herself through law school in an effort to represent her brother, who has been wrongfully convicted of murder and has exhausted his chances to appeal his conviction through public defenders.

Nancy Taylor: I'm sorry you wasted your life on this. Your brother killed that woman.
Kenny Waters: [after seeing the media people and the police surrounding him] What the fuck?
Nancy Taylor: Kenneth Waters? You're under arrest for the murder of Katharina Brow.
Kenny Waters: Are you out of your fucking mind? You let me off two years ago!
Nancy Taylor: We've got you know.
Betty Anne Waters: You are innocent!
Kenny Waters: Are you sure about that?
Betty Anne Waters: [crying] How can you ask me that? How can you ask me that?
Betty Anne Waters: [after hearing that his brother was convicted] We'll appeal, Kenny! We'll get you out!
Betty Anne Waters: I don't deserve a friend like you.
Abra Rice: You damn right, you don't!