The Watchful Eye follows Elena Santos, a young woman with a complicated past, maneuvering her way into working as a live-in nanny for an affluent family in Manhattan. She quickly learns that everyone in the mysterious building has deadly secrets and ulterior motives. What they don't know, however, is that Elena has some shocking secrets of her own.
The series features two young female protagonists and focuses on the first generation to come-of-age in the apocalypse. Some become heroes. Some become villains. In the end, all of them are changed forever. Grown-up and cemented in their identities, both good and bad.
After a white cop in Chicago mistakenly shoots and kills a black doctor, we follow three vastly different families that all have connections with the case as the story is told from each perspective.