In 1969, 8-year-old Susan Nason is murdered; the case goes unsolved for nearly 20 years, until Nason's friend Eileen Franklin suddenly remembers she witnessed the crime and the murderer was her own father.
During the trial, Franklin family members testify about the abuse they endured as children as all their darkest secrets become public knowledge. The defense team tries to convince the jury that Eileen conspired with her sister and mother to convict George as an act of vengeance.
All over the country, women remember their repressed memories of long-forgotten trauma. Meanwhile, Eileen becomes convinced her father was involved in other murders.