Plot summary

Atticus Finch is an idealistic lawyer in the fictional town of Maycomb, a racially-divided Alabama town, in the early 1930s. Finch agrees to defend a young Black man who is accused of raping a white woman. Many of the townspeople try to get Atticus to pull out of the trial, but he decides to go ahead. As one begins observing the reasons that make his defense far from easy, it becomes evident that nobody in this town seems wiling to believe in the innocence of an accused Negro man. How will the trial turn out? Will it effect any changes in racial attitudes in Maycomb?—Brian Daly