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After fourteen-year-old Jacob Barber is acquitted of murder, the family tries to rebuild in the shadow of a trial that changed everything. But freedom does not mean peace, and old fractures between husband and wife, between sisters, between past and present begin to widen instead of heal.
As secrets resurface and loyalties shift, Laurie's younger sister Natalie steps closer into the family's orbit, bringing with her a history no one fully understands. In a quiet Boston suburb where reputation is currency and silence is survival, the question is no longer whether the truth will come out, but what it will cost when it does.