In 2004, sixteen-year-old Cyntoia Brown shot and killed Johnny Allen, a 43-year-old man who had picked her up for sex, and was sentenced to life in prison. Filmmaker Daniel Birman got access to Brown, her family, and the legal proceedings that followed, building a record that runs from her arrest through years of appeals. Courtroom footage and interviews lay out how a childhood marked by abuse and neglect led to her being trafficked on the streets of Nashville, and how prosecutors and defense attorneys argued over whether she was a predator or a victim. Birman keeps his camera close on Brown herself as she ages from a defiant teenager into an adult reckoning with what she did and what was done to her. The film does not resolve the argument so much as document it, following the case as it becomes a flashpoint in the debate over how the justice system treats trafficked minors.