Stella is pretty relaxed about her gift of second sight, but her partner Philip thinks she’s barmy. Stella’s happy-go-lucky attitude to her gift screeches to a halt when Siri, her twelve-year-old daughter, is savagely murdered and Stella can find her daughter nowhere, in this world or the next. Then, in the old French town of Agde, she meets Louis, a clever, mysterious man, and a young boy who is always near him. These two lead her to a place and a time where her search for Siri takes on a new meaning.