The verdict from the three-judge panel is in. Cecil Younger, bumbling criminal defense investigator and totally embarrassing father, has been sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in prison for his involvement in ā¦ well, a number of things, ranging from destruction of private property to killing a guy. But compared to the original twenty-five-year sentence, itās not so bad. His success with getting his sentence reduced has attracted the attention of his fellow inmates, and one man, āFourth Street,ā reaches out for advice for his upcoming parole hearing in exchange for protection and companionship.
When he isnāt reading Adrienne Rich or James Baldwin with Fourth Street, Cecil spends his time filling up large yellow legal pads. He writes, mostly, about his teenage daughter, Blossom, who is on a Nancy Drewālike quest to help her friend, George, discover the truth about her biological parents, which turns out to be complicated. After submitting a mail-in genetics test, George learns she is the infamous āBaby Jane Doeā who was kidnapped from her Native mother shortly after she was born. A media and legal circus quickly ensues, but Georgeās reunion with her birth family isnāt the heartwarming story the journalists hoped it would be. There is an even darker secret about the baby-snatching case, one that threatens to destroy not just Georgeās familyābut Cecilās as well.