When Mel tries to meet the parents of her daughter's new playmate Sara, she finds that everyone claims the child doesn't exist. But as evidence mounts that Sara is real, Mel becomes convinced that someone is hiding the girl to conceal a dark secret.

After a struggling single mom's daughter takes money from a dying bank robber, the two become entangled in a tense investigation that threatens everything they love.

A corrupt sheriff arrests a woman for killing the man who was sexually assaulting her young daughter. Determined to stand up to the town's power structure, she decides to run against the sheriff in a local election while awaiting her day in court.