A juror tries to convince eleven others that their hasty conviction of a boy on trial should be reconsidered. Intense melodrama set in a jury room, the arguments and frustrations of the jurors create heavy conflict, fueled by a hot day. One by one the eleven are asked to see real truth. Anita Paul
The defence and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and shut case of murder soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other. Based on the play, all of the action takes place on the stage of the jury room.