Jake has yet to see any of the insurance money for the burnt house, which is tied up in litigation with his own insurance company. During the Hailey trial, the Ku Klux Klan had tried to intimidate Jake by burning his home. Jake Brigance, Carl Lee's former attorney, had gained much fame after the Hailey trial, as well as the respect of the black community and of many whites, but he has little to no money to show for it. Accompanying the body are very specific funeral and burial instructions. Hubbard has hanged himself from the tree because his terminal lung cancer had become too painful.

An employee of wealthy recluse Seth Hubbard is instructed to meet his boss at a location by these sycamores one early Sunday afternoon. The story begins three years after the sensational events in the trial of Carl Lee Hailey ( A Time to Kill). It is suggested that these sycamores are very old, having been planted by Native Americans prior to the arrival of European settlers and their stolen, enslaved Africans in what would become the state of Mississippi. The trees play an important role in the book's plot, though the full significance becomes clear only in the end of the novel. The title refers to a row of sycamore trees in the countryside near the fictional town of Clanton, in fictional Ford County, Mississippi.

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