When a teenaged heiress vanishes, her African American teacher is the prime suspect. A tense trial follows, and a conviction seems all but guaranteed, until juror Maya Seale persuades the rest of the jurors to return the verdict of not guilty. Also the author of The Sherlockian and the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of The Imitation Game, Graham Moore fast forwards to a decade later, when one of the jurors is found dead in Maya's hotel room, and she must prove her own innocence—by getting to the bottom of a case that is far from closed.