A thriller set in London, in which a politician's life becomes increasingly complex as his research assistant is found dead on the London Underground and, in a seemingly unrelated incident, a teenage drug dealer is shot dead.
瑞秋（安娜·钱斯勒 Anna Chancellor 饰）是一位富有而善良的女性，收养了五个孩子。一天，她被人发现在自己家中遭到了谋杀，警方在犯罪现场找到了她的其中一名养子杰克（安东尼·鲍伊 Anthony Boyle 饰）的指纹，杰克被视为最大嫌疑人，遭到了逮捕。可是，就在庭审即将开始之际，杰克在狱中死于一场意外，这宗案件就以杰克是凶手为结果就此盖棺定论。
