本剧由《真爱如血》的执行制片人Raelle meijubar.net Tucker和导演Scott Winant再度合作开发,制片方为最近出品了《利器》的Blumhouse。素材来自《格林童话》经典故事《没有手的姑娘》(The Handless Maiden),还结合了Stephanie Oakes的小说《The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly》。讲述了一名无手少女在逃离邪//教后,因故进了少/管/所,她被怀疑知道是谁杀死了邪教领袖。 《忽然七日》的Elena Kampouris饰演女主,《守望尘世》的Kevin Carroll饰演威尔森医生。卡司好包括《杰西卡·琼斯》的Leah Gibson,《奔腾年代》的Toby Huss。 Fifteen years ago, young "Elsie" is abandoned at a diner with only a guitar by her father. She ends up in the foster care system moving from house to house and grows into a troubled teen. With only a year left before edging out of the system, she moves to her last foster home.. During a tantrum she is told by her foster guardian her father is alive and is in prison, so she goes to see him. He tells her that her mother is dead of cancer and that the guitar was her mother's. Then there is "Harper", a woman who volunteers at the "Jane Doe Archives" to identify discovered Jane Doe bodies to their missing person;s reports by investigating the cases thoroughly. She embarks on a new "Cherry Falls" Jane doe case but is met with resentment from the police. She goes to investigate Cherry falls site where the body was discovered and finds a skull hidden in a tree trunk. How Elsie and Harper paths cross is revealed in episode two.