Three Feet Back (2017)

1934. A small Southern town is shaken when a white man is accused of killing a black man. The man is sentenced to life in prison, and is abandoned by almost everybody in the town, with the exception of a young girl, Allen. Allen is convinced of her newfound friends innocence. She grows up to become a lawyer, to fight for her friend's freedom. Will he spend the rest of his life in prison? Will Ellen free him?