It’s 1920, and a fifteen-year veteran policeman, Frank Fallon, finds himself demoted and transferred back to his hometown, Harbour Grace, Newfoundland. Having left the community in 1905 after being rejected by his first love, Marie Callahan, Constable Fallon never wanted to return to the place of his childhood. Although they were young, budding lovers, her denial of him for the love of another, somebody never disclosed to him, is still a painful memory. An opportunity to join the Constabulary in St. John’s presented him with an escape from a place he never wanted to see again. However, his growing dependence on alcohol while in the city, at a time when Prohibition was cracking down on the illegal sale of booze in the Dominion of Newfoundland, resulted in Fallon butting heads with the Chief of Police. Now, challenged to police a town where only bitter memories exist for him isn’t going to be easy. Two weeks into his tenure, an anonymous caller reports a fully-clothed body on Martin’s Beach. Frank is shocked to realize it is the lifeless corpse of Marie Callahan. The gruesome discovery shakes his very soul, and his heart is broken yet again. While her death is deemed by authorities to be the result of suicide, an open-and-shut case that is not worthy of further investigation, Constable Frank Fallon suspects something is amiss and takes on the case of the woman he once loved.