Source www.Wikipedia.com In the wake of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, seven men and one woman are arrested and charged with
conspiring to kill the President, Vice President, and Secretary of State. The lone woman charged, Mary
Surratt (Wright) owns a boarding house where John Wilkes Booth (Toby Kebbell) and others met and planned
the simultaneous attacks. Against the ominous back-drop of post-Civil War Washington, newly-minted lawyer,
Frederick Aiken (McAvoy), a 28-year-old Union war-hero, reluctantly agrees to defend Surratt before a
military tribunal. Aiken realizes his client may be innocent and that she is being used as bait and hostage
in order to capture the only conspirator to have escaped a massive manhunt, her own son, John (Johnny Simmons).
As the nation turns against her, Surratt is forced to rely on Aiken to uncover the truth and save her life.
Aiken is at first very reluctant to take the case and believes his client is guilty. However, he uncovers
evidence of her innocence and conducts a spirited defense. However, in the end Mary Surratt is found guilty and hanged.
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