The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them suffers a family tragedy.

基于Nathaniel Rich在《纽约时报》上发表的文章《The Lawyer Who Became DuPont’s Worst Nightmare》，围绕罗伯特·比洛特展开，他担任辩护律师长达8年之久，他对化工巨头杜邦公司提起了环境诉讼，这场官司揭露了几十年来杜邦公司化学污染的历史。

Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.