For more than twenty years, Sam Cayhall has been awaiting execution for a brutal crime he once committed.The sentence is due to be carried out soon.And then his grandson, Adam Hall, a young lawyer from Chicago, suddenly joins the desperate struggle for Sam's life.There is still time–days, hours, minutes–to get the verdict overturned. But the "special people" have already started preparing the gas chamber, opponents of the death penalty are already rallying outside the prison, and television crews have stretched wires and installed cameras in the hope of sensational reports.Will Adam be able to help a man who has destroyed not only someone else's life, but also the life of his own family? Will he be able to find a common language with his grandfather – after all, there are not only piles of lies between them, but also shameful family secrets? And most importantly, will a novice lawyer be able to reveal Sam's main secret? How far is he willing to go for this? After all, saving his grandfather, he can endanger his own life…