Fifteen years after his crime, in an ostensibly kinder and gentler future, attorney Duke MacNamara, convicted rapist-murderer, is the last man waiting on any death row anywhere. Only Barbara Silver, his former law partner, stands by the condemned man. But what she alleges in her final appeal brief to the US Supreme Court defies imagination. Has the Government’s invasion of privacy been extended to the contents of a man’s thoughts — or even his soul?