Mary Surratt is the lone female charged as a co-conpirator in the assassination trial of Abraham Lin...
Mary Surratt is the lone female charged as a co-conpirator in the assassination trial of Abraham Lincoln. As the whole nation turn againt her, she is forced to rely on her reluctant lawyer to uncover the truth and save her life.
In the wake of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, seven men and one woman are arrested and charged with conpiring to kill the President, the Vice-President, and the Secretary of State. The lone woman charged, Mary Surratt, 42, own a boarding house where John Wilkes Booth and other met and planned the simultaneous attacks. Againt the ominous back-drop of post-Civil War Washington, newly-minted lawyer, Frederick Aiken, a 28-year-old Union war-hero, reluctantly agrees to defend Surratt before a military tribunal. As the trial unfolds, Aiken realizes his client may be innocent and that she is being used as bait and hostage in order to capture the only conpirator to have escaped a massive manhunt, her own son.
