A lawyer trying to cope with his son's accidental death takes on a case where a farmer is charged with booby trapping a watermelon patch with a shotgun which went off and injured a young boy. But in choosing to defend the farmer, he puts himself at odds with the boy's father, an old friend who is politically influential. In dealing with this case, he is forced to confront his own son's death and his wife's slippage into being a virtual recluse.
Louis Gossett Jr.
as Daniel Stewart
Lonette McKee
as
Kathleen York
as Aurora Watling
William Schallert
as Judge Shelton
Beth Grant
as
Scott Lawrence
as Ranse Shipley
Kathryne Dora Brown
as Camile Stewart
Robert C. Treveiler
as
Doren Fein
as
Joe Don Baker
as Horace
Frankie Muniz
as Oscar
Pamela Garmon
as Mrs. Shelton
