Brighton, 1975: A working-class Boston neighbourhood is simmering with violence and racial tension.
Fifteen-year-old Kevin Pearce gets caught up in Brighton's undertow and a crime that forces him to flee the city. Twenty-seven years later, Kevin returns after winning the Pulitzer Prize for an article on the wrongful conviction of a man from Brighton.
But when he’s asked for his advice on a murder case, he's plunged into a web of deception which will test his loyalties to the limit.
