The little girl appeared in Central Park with blood on her shoulder. It fell from the sky, she said, while she was looking for her uncle. Then they found the body in the tree. For NYPD detective Kathy Mallory there is something about the girl that she understands. Mallory is damaged, they say, but she can tell a kindred spirit.

Sadie Green's purple bicycle was found abandoned at the bus stop. Then her friend, Gwen, disappeared, which led the police to propose a runaway theory to the press. But State Police Investigator Rouge Kendall wasn't convinced. On a barstool in Dame's tavern, where Kendall spent a little too much time, he remembered his own mother, begging for the life of his twin sister, Susan. That was fifteen years ago. And a man had been imprisioned for that murder - a priest, barely in his twenties. Father Paul Marie continued to proclaim his innocence. And current events might prove that he was telling...