When life is seasoned by the complexities of grief, can a comforting truth ever really exist?

 

Hannah Olsen-Little was only four months old when her Aunt Lucy murdered her family on Christmas Eve. Thirty years later, Hollywood reaches out to make a documentary. 

 

Unsure if she can revisit the ghosts of her past, Hannah visits her long-distance crush, Xochitl Delgado, for the chance to tell her story and soundboard her worries. As the host of a popular podcast series, Xochitl isn't just a conveyor of true crime tales, but part of one as well.

Spanning the course of several decades, Hannah and Xochitl's ancestral legacies unravel and intertwine in a multi-timeline, page-turning drama of chance meetings, deceit, obsession, and murder. From the unsolved death of Hannah's uncle, to a cross-country kidnapping while Xochitl was still in her mother's womb, only one person can make sense of the past in order to create a comforting truth in the present. But first, Hannah has to find the strength to visit her in prison before filming is set to begin.