A dramatization of the famous 1893 Massachusetts trial of the woman accused of murdering her father and stepmother with an ax. Elizabeth Montgomery stars as Lizzie Borden, a 19th-century Massachusetts woman, who is put on trial for the brutal slaughter of her father and step-mother in the family mansion. She is accused of hacking up her parents with an ax after carefully removing her clothes to avoid bloodstains. Based on fact and considered shocking at the time for a TV-movie. Lizzie Borden took an ax, gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, gave her father forty-one.