A young couple (HIMESH PATEL and LILY JAMES) moves to a small, picturesque island town in the American South to start a new, quiet life for their growing family. But when a gruesome, sensational murder and the discovery of a million dollars next to the body rocks the community, everyone connected to the crime rushes to both absolve themselves and profit in any way they can, resulting in a series of increasingly bad – and deadly – decisions.