In this gripping dark family story, Thorne weaves a thrilling tale of two lives from different times. 1933: Gwen is a dutiful wife. But as the years pass on their desperately poor smallholding, her duty to her husband John will have a terrible price for herself and her children something that she cannot speak of. In the present day, Sarah finds her grandparents ruined farmhouse, she becomes obsessed with restoring it. She starts digging into her family history and is appalled to learn her grandfather was shot. Can she find justice for John?