12 Years a Slave screenwriter John Ridley returns to television with this new trailer for his upcoming ABC anthology series American Crime.

The trailer features a series of quick cuts that shows how three families are affected by a single crime. ABC  touts the tagline, "One crime can infect so many lives."

Starring Felicity Huffman, Timothy Hutton, W. Earl Brown, Benito Martinez and Richard Cabral, American Crime premieres on March 5 on ABC.

All over the news are reports about a young couple in Modesto, California, who were attacked in their home. The case sends shock waves into the community stirring up tensions across racial lines in this gritty drama.