The young victim had been pregnant, her body washed up on the rocks. Twenty years on the murder remains unsolved; her father is now dead, and her mother is still silent about what went on all those years ago. At least, that's the way it is when Detective Inspector Marjory Fleming is called in to reopen the case that her late policeman father was unable to put to rest. As Fleming digs deeper it becomes clear that her father had struggled to keep some of the shameful details around the young girl's death a secret. Can she handle the truth she will unearth, not just about her father but about herself?