It is the year 2004 and Elizabeth LaResca is a motivated US Army Interrogator, working at a top secret detention facility in Baghdad Iraq. She is forced to begin using Enhanced Interrogation Techniques (torture) to make detainees talk and reveal the source of the bombs that are blowing up American soldiers. Jump to the year 2019 and Elizabeth LaResca is now a civilian police investigator when a young woman's headless body is found. In addition to being decapitated, it appears as though she was tortured. The victim is the daughter of her former boss from her Army interrogation unit . Soon more children of her fellow interrogators are found to have been kidnapped and tortured in the same manner the American interrogators used against the Iraqi detainees so long ago. Elizabeth and her former Army boss Dan, now an FBI agent are both hot on the trail of the killer but more and more children of her colleagues are turning up dead. With her own son missing, the pressure is mounting for her to discover who is committing these heinous crimes and stop the murders. However this case is dredging up memories, forcing both her and Dan to confront their feelings long thought buried about what they did so long ago during the war.