CHAPEL HILL, NC – A gaunt, bedraggled, and exhausted middle-aged woman named Heather (actor Serena Ebhardt, as we’ve never seen her before) sags in front of the guard’s desk in an understaffed prison called Crossroads Correctional Facility, somewhere in the Midwest. After an hour, the result of repeated check-ins, cajolings, and finally begging lies on a cart behind the guard: a large box containing her brother’s personal effects. Just after 7:00 the night before, the state put him to death.