In Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930's, Scout Finch and her brother Jem are just innocent children, but they are about to grow up and change to witness something special. Their lawyer father Atticus believes they should live in a town where racism and hate are not present and all should be treated equally. He is later the one to be the lawyer in the case of a black man accused of raping a white girl. Based on Harper Lee's novel of the same name, this film is considered one of the greatest of all time and has been preserved by the Library of Congress as being historically or culturally significant.