After psychologist Michael Hunter's (Garcia) teenaged son commits suicide, he becomes estranged from his wife and daughter and gives up hands-on therapy. But he's persuaded by his former student, Barbara (Polo), to look into one of her social work cases. Now nearly-18, Tommy (Kartheiser) discovered the body of his murdered mother when he was a boy and his father (Bottoms) is in prison for the crime. But Tommy has been keeping a lot of secrets.