Une jeune femme a été assassinée.Sa mort va bouleverser la vie de cinq personnes :L'étrangère qui découvre le corps.La soeur qui espère que le corps est celui de sa soeur disparue.L'épouse qui pense que son mari pourrait être le tueur.La mère qui enquête sur ce qu'était la vie de sa fille.La fille qui rêvait de changer de vie...

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.