When local landowner and respected town matriarch Bernice Price is found dead at the bottom of her farm’s pump well, two ex-lovers stand accused of her murder. Twelve ordinary citizens from diverse backgrounds have been plucked from the township and its surrounds to decide the fate of the co-accused – was Bernice the victim of a crime of passion, a workplace accident or just misfortune?
Colby has his work cut out when the wife of the accused and the ex-partner of the victim recount the events leading to Amanda Taylor's murder.