Basé sur l'histoire vraie du meurtre de Martha Moxley le 30 octobre 1975, belle Américaine issue de la jeunesse dorée des années 1970, qui ne sera élucidé que 25 ans après les faits, par le très controversé Mark Fuhrman, un ancien policier reconverti en écrivain à polémique.

Aftershock follows four groups of people in the minutes, hours and days after Wellington is struck by a magnitude 8.2 earthquake and subsequent tsunami. Buried office workers must pull together. Strangers, caught by the tsunami on a ruined motorway, put themselves in danger to save others. A mother must reunite her family. And, at the centre of the rescue operation, a controller is bunkered down at Wellington’s Emergency Management Office.