In April 2010 in the city of Beverly Hills, California, a routine traffic stop quickly escalates into an arrest, of an African-American man, placing his blood into CODIS - the FBI database of DNA evidence collected from crime scenes and convicted criminals - revealing a mitochondrial connection to a string of unsolved murders in the 1970s. The racist history of the forgotten township of Lafayette, Virginia, is revisited through the revival of a cold-case of the brutal murders of four white people in one week of July, in 1975. Houston Jenkin's life is changed forever, as one week in the past and one week in the present converge to shape his future and his emotional state. With the help of his wife, Sabrina, he must navigate his emotions and the family history that ties his fate to Lafayette, Virginia and a death bed confession.