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.