Andy Barber has been an assistant district attorney for over twenty years and lives happily with his wife Laurie and their son Jacob. But their smooth life is shaken by a stabbing. To Andy's astonishment, his fourteen-year-old son is suspected of the murder. Andy does everything he can to protect his son, but when incriminating facts surface, his marriage threatens to fall apart and the process speeds up, Andy faces a diabolical dilemma.