Mystery and love story about a group of childhood friends caught up in a 40 year long series of brutal murders of 5 of their scout troop that plunges them into a web of intigue related to how each responded to the Vietnam War. The love story centers on Joshua and Carla Hilliard, who, faced with Joshua's possible indictment for the murders of his friends, set out on a jouney of discovery to solve the murders and resove the complex issues of their relationship.