Maria, a poor Columbian teenager, is desperate to leave a soul-crushing job. She accepts an offer to transport packets of heroin, which she swallows, to the United States. The ruthless world of drug trafficking proves to be more than she bargained for.

The story of the "Ward Boys", four elderly brothers who lived in a two-room shack in New York for 60 years, and how the death of one led to murder allegations against his brother.

The Friedmans seem to be a typical family from affluent Great Neck, Long Island. One Thanksgiving, as the family gathers for a quiet holiday dinner, a police battering ram splinters the front door and officers rush inside. The police charge Arnold Friedman and his son Jesse with hundreds of shocking crimes. As police investigate, and the community reacts, the fabric of the family begins to disintegrate, revealing questions about justice, family and...