Fred Neulander founded Congregation M'Kor Shalom, a Reform synagogue in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, in the summer of 1974, and spent two decades as its rabbi before his wife Carol was beaten to death in their home on November 1, 1994. The film lays out how investigators traced the killing back to Neulander himself, who paid a congregant, Len Jenoff, and a drifter named Paul Daniels $18,000 to carry out the murder. It follows the case from the initial investigation through the trial that ended in Neulander's conviction, tracing the motive prosecutors argued: an affair he wanted to keep from unraveling his marriage and his standing in the congregation he had built. Neulander is now serving 30 years to life in a New Jersey prison in Trenton and has continued to maintain his innocence. The film sticks close to the public record of the case, the plea deals from his hired killers, and the picture of a respected community figure charged with arranging his own wife's death.