In 1969, 8-year-old Susan Nason is murdered. The case goes unsolved for nearly 20 years until Nason's friend, Eileen Franklin, suddenly remembers she had witnessed the crime and that the murderer was her own father.

George Franklin becomes the first person to be charged with murder based on a repressed memory. His accuser: his own daughter. His defense team attacks her credibility, and the credibility of recovered memories generally.