Two FBI agents seeking to investigate the killing of civil rights workers in the 1960s are trying to break the conspiracy of silence in a small southern town with a black-and-white racism. The FBI junior agent trains on the small town roads of his former partner. Will they be able to eliminate racism among these people? His new life began without racism.
"Mississippi Burning" feels like a movie made from the inside out, a movie that knows the ways and people of its small Southern city so intimately that, having seen it, I know the place I'd go for a cup of coffee and the place I'd steer clear from.
