Mrs. Soffel

A true story.

A morally complex historical drama about a respectable woman's transgressive love affair with a death-row inmate, built on forbidden romance and the consequences of abandoning one's family for passion.

Kate Soffel is married to a prison warden in Pittsburgh, and is the mother of their four children. Ed Biddle is a convicted murderer awaiting execution on death row with his brother Jack. When Kate meets Eddie through her Bible readings to the prisoners, she is drawn to him, and they pursue a clandestine relationship. She agrees to help the brothers escape, and begins a treacherous journey with them to freedom in Canada.