It's the most sensational case of the decade. Fifteen-year-old Jessica Silver, heiress to a billion-dollar real estate fortune, disappears on her way home from school, and her teacher, Bobby Nock, a twenty-five-year-old African-American man, is the prime suspect. The subsequent trial delves directly into America's most pressing preoccupations: race, class, gender, law enforcement, and the heinous sins of the rich and famous. It's an open-and-shut case for the prosecution, and a quick conviction seems all but guaranteed—until Maya Sell, a young woman on the jury, convinced of Nock's innocence, persuades the rest of the jurors to return a not guilty verdict. It's a controversial decision that will change all their lives forever.