Arlene has lived in a small town on the edge of nowhere her whole life. Now married to her long-time high school sweetheart, Arlene is itching to start a family and become the mother she always wanted to be. But that's proving more difficult than she thought, and Arlene is desperate to find something to do to keep her mind off things and get some distance from her husband, who is increasingly getting on her nerves. She takes a part-time job bagging evidence at the local police department, reading over cold cases in her free time. One in particular fascinates her: the mysterious deaths of 3 young brothers murdered on Deck River, followed by the suicide of Mitchell Wright, the prime suspect in the murders. Arlene can't help but feel that if she solves the case of the Broderick boys deaths, she'll find her footing in her young marriage and maybe find what she's been looking for all along.