This powerful drama is a fictional account of the 1964 murder of Kitty Genovese in Queens, where 37 neighbors witnessed the killing without intervening. The film explores the lives of several families on the day and night of the tragedy that shocked America.
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In 1964, a tragic event occurred when Kitty Genovese, a 37-year-old woman, was brutally murdered outside her Queens apartment, with 37 witnesses present but unable to intervene.