Examines the death of a teenage Japanese exchange student, Yoshi Hattori, in Baton Rouge, LA in October 1992. Hattori was fatally shot by homeowner Rodney Peairs when he and a friend, dressed in Halloween costumes and heading for a party, mistakenly walked up to the Peairs residence. News footage, videotape depositions, and interviews with the attorneys and other participants in the case outline the critical details of the criminal and civil trials surrounding Hattori's tragic death.