Alec Graham is punished to death for the murder of his partner Agnes, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the moms and dads of his close friend Brian Stanford. Alec's father, David Graham, a not-so-successful author and also alcoholic that has actually ignored his son in the past, flies in from Canada to see his boy on fatality row. David then goes on a quest to attempt as well as clear his kid's name while fighting "the bottle."