Lawson (Cooper Gooding, Jr. Cuba Gooding Jr. (acted the role of) is an experienced lawyer with a good reputation, one day, the mayor asked him to help his son who committed murder to defend, Lawson's inner conscience drove him to refuse this "beautiful job", he also lost his job. Just when Lawson's life was in trouble, he came across a novel called the murder of the Crow, whose author was dead. For a moment, Lawson took the novel for himself and became popular. Fame brought wealth to Lawson, but also brought trouble, before long, Lawson became the target of police surveillance, because the murders in the "Crow murder" occurred one after another in reality! In order to find his innocence, Lawson decided to go out in person, through a variety of clues, to find the black hand behind the scenes.