Lin Hui and Cheung Mingzhu from Shenzhen in China, win scholarships to study at Queen's University in Belfast. Alina Balauru departs a poor farm in Romania for the promise of well-paid work in Northern Ireland. Three lives harbouring long-cherished dreams. Three lives headed for tragedy. Sheehan and his Serious Crimes Unit discover the body of one of the young Asian women in the garden of an upmarket residence. Confronted with violent Chinese racketeers, brutal human-traffickers and a fiendishly clever killer called The Shadow, they are baffled by a case that seems to lead in two entirely different directions. Can they find out who The Shadow is in time to save the other two victims?