Juliet Langlois, is an Australian woman who travels to the English Channel island of Jersey twenty years after a family tragedy. She is determined to uncover the truth behind a 1972 scandal in which her wealthy and respected grandmother, Sophia Langlois, confessed to shooting her own eldest son.

Alongside investigative reporter Dan Deffians, Juliet explores whether Sophia was truly guilty or if she was protecting someone else. The narrative shifts between the present day and the war-ravaged years of the 1930s and ’40s, revealing long-held family secrets of love, revenge, and murder.