After trauma turns Laura Sutherland's life upside down in 1966, she flees the U.S. to escape the man who intends to kill her. From Cincinnati to Europe and onward to Africa, she hides with the assistance of a Franciscan monk.
Keeping secrets and telling lies to stay alive, Laura and Mack, a Scottish doctor, get drawn back into the killer's world in 1977 when an orphaned child must be seen by a specialist in Cincinnati.
With the help of a monk, an arson investigator, and a hippie, Laura and Mack devise a plan that will either help authorities capture the killer or cost them their lives.