Story of a secret government agency that places people in the Witness Protection Program. Some of them are turning on their former friends and others are being hunted by the mob, but all need the help of Diane Carter and her agency.

The story of Pentecostal minister Glenn Summerford — a man accused of attempting to murder his wife with a rattlesnake in the sleepy town of Scottsboro, Alabama — and the investigation and trial that haunted Southern Appalachia for decades.