Marcella Backland returns to the Metropolitan Homicide Division after a 12-year career hiatus. Marcella is a detective in her late thirties who gave up her glorious job to get married and dedicate her life to a family. But after the abrupt end of her marriage to the love of her life Jason, and the estrangement from her thirteen-year-old daughter and ten-year-old son, Marcella returns to work as she tries to understand what is happening in her life right now.