In 1992, Allen Schindler, a young American sailor, is beaten to death in Japan. Ten days later, his tattered body returns home, with little information from the Navy. His mother goes on a desperate quest to learn who's behind her son's vicious murder.

July 1996: thousands gather at Centennial Park for the Atlanta Olympics when a bomb explodes. Alice Hawthorne is killed and more than 100 others are injured. As the FBI investigates terrorism, they soon find themselves tracking a serial bomber.