We live in complicated times. Truth is more a matter of convenience than of veracity.
Justice is more a matter of law than of moral obligation.
Complications and life. That's why it is refreshing and horrifying to step back for a moment and view life through the eyes of a simple man. The story begins in a hospital for the mentally insane. Carl is a local celebrity in that his crime, committed almost two decades ago was gruesome and violent and horrific. Carl chopped up with a sling blade the man who was having an affair with his momma and apparently after he committed the passionless crime he decided to kill her as well.