Shepherds and Butchers movie - Official Trailer - Plot synopsis: South Africa, 1987. When Leon, a white 19-year-old prison guard commits an inexplicable act of violence, killing seven black men in a hail of bullets, the outcome of the trial - and the court’s sentence - seems a foregone conclusion.<br /><br />Hotshot lawyer John Weber reluctantly takes on the seemingly unwinnable case.<br /><br />A passionate opponent of the death penalty, John discovers that young Leon worked on death row in the nation’s most notorious prison, under traumatic conditions: befriending the inmates over the years while having to assist their eventual execution.<br /><br />As the court hearings progress, the case offers John the opportunity to put the entire system of legally sanctioned murder on trial. How can one man take such a dual role of friend and executioner, becoming both shepherd and butcher?<br /><br />Inspired by true events, this is the story that puts the death penalty on trial and changes history.
