"Late one night, Robert Danziger receives an unexpected call from a childhood friend, Duval Morgan. Duval has spent more than twenty years in an Illinois state penitentiary for the horrific rape and assault of a young nurse. Now he is finally out. Robert reluctantly agrees to meet him, and is astonished to find he is proclaiming his innocence."@en
"Robert Danziger receives an unexpected call from a childhood friend, Duval Morgan. Duval, after twenty years in an Illinois state penitentiary for the rape and assault of a young nurse, is now out. Robert has returned to his native city of Chicago to start afresh. Duval is from a past that Robert would rather forget, but after reluctantly agreeing to meet him he's astonished to find him proclaiming his innocence. Duval gradually spends more time with the Danziger family, befriending Robert's wife Anna and young daughter Sophie, and Robert wonders what his old friend really wants ... When Anna, a lawyer, takes up Duval's cause, Robert is reluctant to encourage her, and, just as Anna's investigations into the rape case start to make progress, Duval disappears."

Without prejudice