Mrs. Soffel

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.

• prison
• prison warden
• based on true story
• prison escape
• fugitive
• family abandonment
• child abandonment
• posse
• woman director
• pittsburgh, pennsylvania
• abandoned by mother
• celebrity criminal
• brothers
• maximum security prison