Edward Fudge, as a child, loses a rebellious friend in a car accident and the question arises - is his friend burning in hell? Fudge faces prejudice and injustice as he challenges long-established traditions and narrow-minded critics. Things heat up when he's hired to research the topic of hell, and his conclusions ignite a fiery debate that continues to this day.

Set in 1965, during the turbulent early days of the right-to-vote movement. The story of a young schoolgirl in Selma, Alabama, who is inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to resist the degradation that her fellow African-Americans are suffering.