Illuminates the odyssey that led Johnny Cochran from Shreveport, LA, to Judge Lance Ito's courtroom in the trial of O.J. Simpson. Cochran's father, Johnnie, Sr., & his mother, Hattie, provided the spiritual comfort & the nurturing values necessary to help sustain him & his two sisters, despite Jim Crow's iron grip & the tough economic times. Not least among those values were the dignity of hard work, service to one's fellow man, & the necessity of keeping faith with one's God. This unflinching portrait of the man & the legal system will forever change our understanding of what works & what doesn't in America's legal system.