Jean Bartel

Cinq histoires parallèles de couples qui apprennnent qu'ils ne sont en fait pas légalement mariés.

In 1920s rural Mississippi, Nancy Mannigoe, an African-American servant, is placed on death row for the murder of Temple Drake's infant child. Temple, the daughter of the governor, pleads with her father to exonerate Nancy of the charges, explaining that Nancy acted in haste to prevent her from resuming her affair with a roguish Cajun called Candy Man. Details of Temple's sordid past are uncovered as she begs mercy for her faithful servant.

La série met en scène les affaires traitées par Perry Mason, célèbre avocat de Los Angeles.