As vidas de várias mulheres, que não se conhecem entre si, são afectadas de diversas maneiras por um mesmo acontecimento trágico: a descoberta do cadáver de uma rapariga, assassinada por uma mão misteriosa.
An ex-newspaper woman who is now a suburban housewife can't resist getting involved in an investigation of the murder of a philandering dentist who had been having affairs with several of her neighbors.
Using two separate filmmaking teams (an all-white crew filming white residents and an all-black camera crew filming black residents), TWO TOWNS OF JASPER captures very different racial views by townsfolk in Jasper, Texas, the location for a racially motivated murder of an African American man in 1998.