After suffering years of abuse, a Missouri woman claims she had no choice but to kill her husband during a gun struggle; when the autopsy is performed on the body her mother helped her bury, however, her self-defense story comes into question.
Dans le Missouri, après des années de mauvais traitements, une femme tue son mari pour sauver sa vie. Les enquêteurs comptent sur les résultats de l'autopsie.