Culpability

When the Cassidy-Shaws’ autonomous minivan collides with an oncoming car—killing an elderly couple—seventeen-year-old Charlie is in the driver’s seat, with his father, Noah, beside him. In the back, Alice and Izzy, while their mother, Lorelei is lost in her work. But behind the facade of a typical family outing, each member harbors a secret that may have played a role in the tragedy.

As the family retreats to the Chesapeake Bay to recover, the accident’s emotional and ethical fallout begins to surface. A routine police investigation threatens Charlie’s future. The girls grow suddenly withdrawn. And Noah—trying desperately to hold the family together—starts to suspect that Lorelei is hiding something far more disturbing than he imagined.

Those suspicions intensify with the unexpected arrival of Daniel Monet, a powerful tech mogul whose cryptic past with Lorelei points to secrets, betrayal—and a deeper, more unsettling truth about what really happened that day. When Charlie becomes entangled with Monet’s teenage daughter, tensions escalate, and the fragile family unit begins to unravel.