Sometimes fate really is decided by a single, solitary moment.
Forty-nine-year-old Ellie turns her attention away from her beloved grandson Josh for just a second—by noticing her husband’s phone conversation—and at that very instant her life is irrevocably split into “before” and “after.” Nothing can be fixed: a child’s T-shirt floats in the pond, bright red, like blood.
At first glance, it might seem like a terrible accident. But the police are convinced that everything is much more complicated. Ellie is accused of murder, and it’s not only the tragic circumstances working against her—there are also secrets from her past that she has kept hidden for years.
So who is she really—cold-blooded criminal or a woman victimized by a monstrous chain of circumstances? And what happened on that terrible day, when seconds decided everything?