Adapted from the George Plimpton biography Truman Capote, Infamous chronicles the relationship that developed between Capote and convicted murderers Dick Hickock and Perry Smith, while the pair awaited execution on death row. Based on a true story, explores the events behind the creation of Truman Capotes book In cold blood when he went to a small Kansas town to write an article for the New Yorker on a multiple murder, and his obsession with Perry Smith.
