Whistle

Roper Rackard has only recently left prison, where he served time for a drug offense, when he takes a job mowing the overgrown grass at the far edge of his new employer's property. There he stumbles onto a woman's dead body. He had no part in her death, but panic takes over. Afraid he will be blamed for killing a white woman and sent back to jail, he hides the body where no one is likely to find it.

As the days turn into weeks and the hunt for the missing woman carries on, Roper's resolve starts to waver. He second-guesses what he did, asks himself why he didn't simply call for help, and wonders whether anyone would believe he is innocent. Above all, he is left wondering how he could possibly come forward now.