Dead Man Walking

A Catholic nun, Sister Helen Prejean (Susan Sarandon), receives a letter from an inmate on death row requesting a meeting. Matthew Poncelet (Sean Penn) has been sentenced to death for a heinous rape/murder, in which he claimed the lives of a young couple. At first Matthew seems cold and hard, but Sister Helen and Matthew begin to develop an interesting g relationship. She is there to help ease his mind and reassure him that Christ loves all this children, while trying to get him to acknowledge and make right the gruesome crimes of his past. Sister Helen helps Matthew prepare for the quickly approaching carrying out of his sentence.