Anything can slip through the cracks when no one is paying attention. This is the lesson Aron Bernstein, a visually impaired social worker with a fondness for word puzzles, learns when his client, twelve-year-old Reina Machado, confesses to the brutal murder of her foster brother., Anthony Diggory. As Aron tries to figure out what happened leading up to the night of Anthony's death, his own checkered past begins to come back to haunt him. As find the answers, who is an ally and who is an adversary becomes increasingly blurred. Aron must face the fact that the girl he knew might be a killer, and that he didn't successfully run away from his past. Can Aron put back together the pieces of his crumbling second chance? Or are there some cycles that can never be broken?