Desperation Road

Mississippi Delta: For eleven long years, Russell Gaines was in prison for driving drunk and killing a teenager. But on the morning of his release, he finds that not everyone thinks he has already paid for his guilt. That same day, a woman named Maben and her young daughter Annalee trudge down the interstate, desperate, exhausted, using their last few dollars to pay for a room for the night - a night that will end with Maben wandering through the darkness with a gun in her hand and a deputy lying dead in the street. At dawn, Russell and Maben cross paths, and the ex-convict must decide whose life he will save: his own or that of the woman and her daughter ...