The Doggett family moves to Wenatchee, WA to build a better life when parents Mark and Carol end up on trial accused of molestation, unknowingly planting the seeds for what will become an alleged underground child sex ring called 'The Circle.'

The emancipators arrive just in time in the form of outside media and attract the attention of the Innocence Project. The accused are finally released one by one over a period of time, attempting to salvage their families and lives.

The Sims family, who attended Roby's church and were arrested and coerced in an effort to implicate their pastor, refuse to cooperate, mortgaging everything they have to pay for outside counsel who obliterates the prosecution's case.

Revealing the classism and dysfunction lurking beneath the town’s 'Happy Valley' façade, 'The Sin Eaters' introduces the heroic CPS whistle-blowers who break from the herd to speak out against the injustice and retaliation that follows by their superiors.