Twelve-year-old Andrew Preston was highly intelligent and extremely cunning; typical of any other sociopath such as himself. While he loved to see how much he could get away with without being caught, he took his greatest pleasure in harming his autistic little sister, Megan. The children's mother, Kate Rose, always went to great lengths to protect her kids, but things changed when Andrew confessed to the crime against his sister. Now she must try to figure out how to protect them both from different sides of the courtroom. Suddenly plunged into a twisted justice system as the criminal case unfolds, Kate must now choose between her daughter's safety and the law.