A mother of three shoots and kills her neighbor in a home invasion, leaving a small community grasping for answers. While the neighbor's parents question this apparent act of self-defense, police find a journal that may be the key to the truth.

After suffering years of abuse, a Missouri woman claims she had no choice but to kill her husband during a gun struggle. When the autopsy is performed on the body her mother helped her bury, however, her self-defense story comes into question.