Nineteen years ago, Daniel Holden was sentenced to death for the rape and murder of his teenage girlfriend, Hanna Dean. Thanks to newly discovered DNA evidence and the efforts of his lawyer Jon Stern, Daniel's conviction was vacated and he returned to his mother Janet's home in Paulie, Georgia. Not everyone is convinced of his innocence, nor is his future as a free man secure. Paulie holds too many reminders of Hanna, her death and the trial, forcing Daniel to face and accept his role in these events if he's ever to know any peace. When DA Sondra Person presents Daniel with a plea deal, accepting guilt for the murder of Hanna Dean, both Jon and Amantha urge Daniel to refuse it, certain that he would be exonerated if the case went to trial. But Daniel is desperate for a chance to finally put the past behind him - even if it means being branded a murderer and banished from the state of Georgia - and at the end of Season Two, he accepts the district attorney's deal and confesses to killing Hanna Dean. In Season Three, once again a convicted murderer, Daniel must cope with probation officer meetings, while Janet prepares for his looming banishment and Amantha tries to build a life around something other than her brother's innocence. Even DA Sondra Person harbors lingering doubts about Daniel's guilt - until George Melton's corpse turns up, raising new and troubling questions about the night Hanna died. Ultimately, Daniel takes his first tentative steps towards fully embracing his complicated new freedom, leaving in his wake a family struggling to find their way forward and a community that still wonders if justice was truly served.