Warning: This story deals with rape, sexual assault, and suicide.

Netflix has produced some harrowing documentaries in its time, from Abducted in Plain Sight to Our Father – but Victim/Suspect might just make you the angriest yet.

The new documentary follows journalist Rachel ‘Rae’ de Leon as she investigates a disturbing pattern of judicial abuse she uncovered while working as a reporter for the Center for Investigative Reporting in California.

Here, she found that police were arresting women for filing false sexual assault reports, even though these women were telling the truth about their assaults, Rae later uncovered.

The hour and a half long documentary feels like a mix of a true crime thriller with an investigative journalism edge as Rae fights to advocate for the women that have been wrongly arrested.

Here’s everything you need to know about Victim/Suspect.

What is the premise of Netflix’s Victim/Suspect?

The documentary, which first premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January this year, follows Rae de Leon, a reporter at The Center for Investigative Reporting in California, US.

Through her work, Rae discovered a number of legal cases across the US that involve women reporting sexual assault to the police only to be accused of lying about these assaults and being arrested for filing false accusations. Yep, spine-chilling stuff.

Rae discovers that some of these women are facing years in prison due to the charges they have been given, and she proceeds to talk to many of these women and their families about what they have experienced and what exactly happened during their police interviews (viewers get a glimpse of the interviews in question too).

In the trailer, which was released on 27 April, one survivor is heard telling Rae: “The detective told me, ‘He didn’t hold you down, so that’s not rape’.”

“I was raped, and they told me I lied about it,” another added.

The doc was directed by Nancy Schwartzman and charts Rae’s four-year quest for justice for these women.

When will Victim/Suspect be released?

Victim/Suspect was released on Netflix on 23 May, which means the 1hr 35 minute documentary is now available to stream.

Can we watch the trailer?

Yes! If you want to get a sense of what the documentary is about, you can watch the trailer here:

Who are some of the survivors featured in the documentary?

Nikki Yovino was 18 in 2016 when she reported that two college football players forced her to perform sexual acts in a bathroom at an off-campus party. When she was interviewed by a detective, viewers see the interview turn from a victim interview to a suspect interrogation.

Emma Mannion is another survivor who was charged in 2016 with lying about her assault, and another case mentioned is that of Megan Rondini who was also charged with lying about her assault. Tragically, Megan took her life in 2016, the year after she was charged.

What are critics saying about it?

Variety called the documentary “blood boiling” after it premiered at Sundance earlier this year, while Paste said it was an “illuminating portrait of sexual assault reporting”. We must agree with The Hollywood Reporter’s review, however, as it called this doc “unquestionably important”.

We can only hope that shedding a light on this issue forces change to stop survivors being treated this way by the very people meant to protect them.