Octavia Frost travels to the West Coast to investigate the murder of Bettina Moffett, her estranged son Milo's girlfriend, and help him clear his name after he is charged with the crime.
Linguist Paul Iverson, desperate to learn the truth about his wife Lexy's death, sets out to teach their dog, the only witness to Lexy's supposed fall from a tree, to speak and give an account of the incident.