For so many years it haunted. And in the end, all it took was a decision. One decision.

Lilith is a successful Hollywood screenwriter and life in LA could not be more different from the small Buckinghamshire village where she grew up. But everything changes when her ex-boyfriend’s child goes missing. Lilith is convinced that she's responsible, and that she might have done something terrible.

The disappearance reignites old fears and compulsions and the psychological trauma of her childhood comes rushing back. Lilith is forced to confront the past and watch the foundations of the world she has created to protect herself and her loved ones disintegrate around her.