He shouted "Son" and shot him, right in the middle of the courtroom. Then old Brady asked the sheriff to give him two hours, and he left. While everyone here in Bayonne, Louisiana, knows the facts, few can explain them. Except maybe the old guys in the barbershop who spend their days talking... They know Brady, the man who whipped children, and they know why he used to do that. Everything is clear to them, but the narrator, a young reporter for the local newspaper, will have to spend the day listening to them to understand. And for the portrait of a man with a complex past and personality to emerge, and of a black community that has always faced the same difficulties... A story full of verve and humanity.

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