On June 28, 1980, Kelly Michelle Lund shoots and kills Oscar-nominated director John McFadden at a party in his home. For years, speculation swirls over the enigmatic seventeen-year-old's motives. Convicted of the murder, she loses her youth and her freedom?but keeps her secrets to herself.

Thirty years later?and five years after her release from prison?the past has come back to haunt Kelly. Her father-in-law, movie legend Sterling Marshall, is found in a pool of blood in his home in the Hollywood Hills?dead from a shot to the head, just like his old friend John McFadden.