Having left high school at fifteen and become a teenage single parent living in a public housing complex, Sarah Newby has worked her way up to begin a career as a criminal barrister. She then finds that her own son, Simon, is arrested and charged with a series of rapes and murders in and around New York City. The evidence against him appears so strong that his QC advises a guilty plea, whereupon Simon begs his mother to defend him instead. There is...