In 1935, the Cold Mountain Prison in the southern United States was bleakly killed. There is a cell numbered E District. Because the floor is green, others call it "Green Lane", and the people living in it are all death row prisoners. At the other end of the cell is an electric chair for execution. Paul Eichcombeis the director of the E district prison here. He is completely indifferent to the execution procedures of the death row who walked through the "green lane" and then screamed in the electric chair. In addition to Paul and his beloved wife Jane, the "Green Lane" also has the upright deputy prison guard Howell, the warden Haier and his terminally ill His wife Melinda, as the governor’s nephew and abusive prison guard Percy, likes to use pet rats to tease the jailer and the "difficult friends" Draco, serial murderer William, the guilty prisoner Peter and other people of all kinds .
They were full of hostility and disdain, but the arrival of the mysterious John Coffeychanged everything. John Coffey was sentenced to death for murder and came to Area E on an ordinary day. He has a terrifying appearance and a huge body, but he is surprisingly peaceful, sensitive and silent. When he is innocent, he even looks like a child. At the same time, he seems to have an indescribable mysterious power that makes him involuntarily trusting. Aizhicombe asked whether his crime was true. In the end, after Paul helped himself through Kofi, he discovered that Kofi was actually an archangel sent by God to save the souls of the people, and he had suffered it on his behalf!
But true feelings cannot replace the law. Although John Coffey cured Paul and saved Melinda who was dying, he eventually walked through the "green mile." At the moment when this seemingly rude man was about to die, the people on the " Green Lane " achieved an important leap in their lives in a different form.
