Anne Hurter is a broken woman; trying to resist the undercurrents flowing from a past of sexual abuse and emotional deprivation. Freedom does not lie in the death of her parents, but in the form of a caring and attentive saviour, Louis. Anne is incapable of love and Louis seeks it in the arms of another woman. A fragile Anne is pushed over the brink and finds self-preservation in the form of hoarding at the cost of her three children. Her home becomes her sanctuary. Soon it is filled with destruction, death and decay. The discovery of Rachel's body sets the cat among the pigeons. Detectives van der Merwe and Cele can't shake the feeling that there is more to this accidental death than meets the eye. As more bodies are discovered in Anne's back yard, their gut instincts are proved correct. What they do find will leave Anne clinging desperately to sanity as they confront the true evil of the killer.