In 2013, Cleveland is shaken when 911 dispatchers receive a call and three missing women are found in a house of horrors; investigators uncover the truth behind a horrific string of decade-old abductions committed by a city school bus driver.

In 1989 in New York, a vicious assault on a female jogger sparks a racially driven witch-hunt for her attackers; police employ aggressive tactics to coerce confessions from five young men whose lives will change forever.