It’s February 2008. With the help of the Data Protection Act 1998, hobby genealogist Roslyn Watson tracks down someone she’s never met: her paternal grandfather, Arthur, who has spent most of his life in prison. He’s 89 and living on the other side of the country.

When they meet and get acquainted, she discovers some family secrets, especially about Daniel, her father. Ros tries to uncover the truth of her family, with shocking results.

   When a story of Daniel’s past is exposed in a local paper in the South Cumbrian shipbuilding town of Barrow, Arthur returns to his birthplace, to finally face his son.

   The Watson family dynamics implode with fatal consequences for Daniel… and for Molly, his wife.

In the aftermath, even Jasmine, their eldest daughter, isn’t immune. But that isn’t the end of it…