波士顿西郊“全美最安全城市”牛顿，劳丽和安迪·巴伯原本平静祥和的家庭生活，因为爱子雅各布被控谋杀同学而从此陷入一片混乱。 　　剧集改编自美国罪案小说家威廉·蓝迪（William Landay）2012年同名畅销作《永远没有的真相（Defending Jacob）》，由《美国队长》克里斯·埃文斯、《唐顿庄园》米歇尔·道克瑞和《小丑回魂》杰登·马泰尔领衔主演。Andy Barber has been an assistant district attorney in his suburban Massachusetts county for more than twenty years. He is respected in his community, tenacious in the courtroom, and happy at home with his wife, Laurie, and son, Jacob. But when a shocking crime shatters their New England town, Andy is blindsided by what happens next: His fourteen-year-old son is charged with the murder of a fellow student. Every parental instinct Andy has rallies to protect his boy. Jacob insists that he is innocent, and Andy believes him. Andy must. He's his father. But as damning facts and shocking revelations surface, as a marriage threatens to crumble and the trial intensifies, as the crisis reveals how little a father knows about his son, Andy will face a trial of his own - between loyalty and justice, between truth and allegation, between a past he's tried to bury and a future he cannot conceive.