Caylee Anthony, a two-year-old from Orlando, disappears in the summer of 2008, and her mother Casey does not report it for a month, telling police a string of lies about a nanny who does not exist. The child's remains turn up in woods near the family home months later. This film covers the case through the investigation, the media circus that followed it, and the 2011 trial that ended with a jury acquitting Casey Anthony of murder despite the public's near-universal conviction of her guilt. It looks at the physical evidence prosecutors built their case on, including chloroform residue and duct tape, and at why it was not enough to convict. The verdict remains one of the most argued-over in American true crime, and the film treats it as an open wound rather than a solved mystery, without offering new evidence of its own.