In 1964, three civil rights workers who organize a voter registry for minorities in Jessup County Mississippi go missing. The FBI sends two agents, Rupert Anderson and Alan Ward to investigate. The pair found it difficult to conduct interviews with the local townspeople, as Sheriff Stuckey and his deputies exert influence over the public and is linked to a branch of the Ku Klux Klan. The wife of Deputy Sheriff Clinton Pell reveals to Anderson in a discreet conversation that the missing civil rights trio has been murdered, with their bodies buried in an earthen dam. Sheriff Stuckey deduces her confession to the FBI and informs Sheriff Pell, who beats her in retribution. Anderson and Ward devise a plan to indict members of the Klan for the murders.
They arrange for a kidnapping of mayor Tillman, taking him to a remote shack. There, he is left with a black man who threatens to castrate him unless he talks. The abductor is an FBI operative utilized to intimidate the mayor. The mayor gives the operative a full description of the killings, including the names of those involved. Although his statement isn't admissible in court due to coercion, his information proves valuable to the investigators.
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