
In the year 1922, a rancher conspires to murder his wife for financial gain and convinces his teenage son to participate.

When screenwriter Byrdie/Kirstie Alley returns to Hollywood for work, she hits the wall of ageism. Needing work, she gets her nephew to sell her script as his own.

Defence attorney Donna Erickson represents a middle-aged woman whose DNA has matched her to a murder committed several years before. But is she really guilty?