In 1994, three maverick children in West Memphis, Arkansas were convicted of a gruesome triple child murder. However, the original film shows how questionable evidence and a prejudiced community led to an apparent miscarriage of justice. The producers return to West Memphis to meet the Three again and the grassroots movement that has risen to exonerate the Three. However, the father of one of the victims, John Mark Byers, steps forward and belligerently asserts the guilt of all three, even as new evidence and his own criminal record raise suspicions about himself.