Leminara.

This show contains violent content and scenes of domestic abuse.

In a small town, abuse.

In a small town outside Birmingham, Alabama, sets a plot of overgrown land,

almost invisible from the road,

tucked deep into the forest.

Vine snake across the ground, wrapping around trees beside an old broken down trailer.

There's like this really creepy kind of gate and I remember as a kid like passing by that property and always kind of wondering what was back there

Underneath those vines lies a dark history. Forty years ago, a woman shot and killed her abusive husband on this land.

And tonight, history is going to repeat itself.

911, where is your emergency?

I live in Clara.

Me and my boyfriend were just fighting

and I just shot him, and I think he said. You shot him I think he said you shot him I'm Liz flock and I want to tell you a story

it's about what happens when generations of overgrown trauma and pain lead to a point of no return.

On December 12, 2017, a black woman named Devon Gray killed her white boyfriend,

John Henry Vance.

She says it was self-defense, that he was incredibly abusive.

I've tried to call the cops, so I didn't several times.

And I've gotten it every time.

But then she took a blind plea for manslaughter and got 15 years.

Because she was black, she feared going to a trial.

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