Clarice Boundbrooke divorcee and mother of two lives in Port Charlotte FL. She relocated from Mobile Ala and got married. When daughter Maryanne Radieux turns 18, and in her last year of highschool is brutally raped by four "jocks" from the football team. She suffers concussion, broken orbit, bruises on face. Her date Rutherford is jumped from behind while retrieving gift from his truck, put in a choke hold and blacked out. The jocks bragged about it but everyone was afraid to talk except the town drunk. Day before the trial begins he was in a hit and run and left in a coma. DNA results from rape kit mysteriously disappeared. Though the rapists are known no one will testify against the leading pillars of the town's elite because of their social and political standing in the community. There's Chad Broome son of Chief of Police, Griff en Spoolson son of the Bank Manager, Caldren Forke son of the Congressman and Matthew Brusch son of Brusch Car Dealership and Brusch Garage. The town is divided.