When grieving Connie Ryder is taken from her home in the middle of the night, she finds herself held at Silver Lake Academy, a remote facility for "troubled" teens. At Silver Lake, the vulnerable and the dangerous are thrown together, controlled by a strict and brutal regime. Connie decides to keep her head down: the surrounding wilderness makes escape impossible, and anyway, who can she trust in a place like this? But when two girls go missing, Connie is drawn deep into a web of secrets and lies as she attempts to uncover the truth before it's too late.