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This chilling story, based on true events, details the intense relationship between Sister Helen Prejean (Susan Sarandon) and Matthew Poncelet (Sean Penn) who is sentenced to Death Row after the brutal murder of two young lovers. Prejean, who becomes Poncelet's spiritual advisor through his countdown to death, could never have been more unprepared for the events that followed.