On May 28, 1971, a black teenager, Sandy Seale, was stabbed to death in a park in Sydney, Nova Scotia. The police arrested his companion, seventeen-year-old Donald Marshall, Jr., a Micmac youth with some previous run-ins with the law. Six months later, Marshall was brought to trial and convicted of murder. He was sentenced to life imprisonnement. Eleven years later, as a result of a chance encounter, Marshall discovered who the real killer of Sandy Seale was. But it would take an RCMP re-investigation and another six months before Marshall would be given parole. In the interim, the RCMP officers investigating the case were coming to the conclusion that there was a lot more to the case then just a mishandled investigation.