The Silence

When 18-year-old Amelia receives a cochlear implant, the deaf girl must learn to make sense of sounds for the first time. Wanting to adjust to the hearing world and break free of her overprotective parents, she goes to stay with her homicide detective uncle, kindly aunt, and their party-loving children. But when Amelia sees a murder, she becomes the key witness in her uncle Jim’s case.

Maggie insists that Amelia can tell nobody what she saw, but another witness reports seeing a young girl near the murder site. Jim takes Amelia to the police club where she spots one of the killers.

Jim sends Amelia to spy on a conversation between Rocky and Mac that implicates Mac in Shilliday’s death. As the crooked cops on the drugs squad begin to realize that Jim is onto them, they embark on a campaign of harassment against Jim’s family. With Amelia now in even greater danger, Jim comes clean to her parents, leading to an emotional confrontation between the brothers.

Jim seeks to have the drug squad investigated for corruption, but everybody closes rank against him. Meanwhile, Amelia sees that justice is done in her own way.