The story centres on the murder of a young woman, Janet McMasters, in 1963 and Robert Kelly, the man who was hanged for her murder. Over two decades later the murder affects the lives of Andrew Myers and Jim Kelly, the hanged man's son. Jim Kelly, who was convinced his father was innocent and spent every spare moment trying to prove it, disappears in mysterious circumstances. Some years later, Andy's secure and predictable life changes in ways that he could never have imagined