When disgraced small time politician Danny Senetti and local GP Maxine Wells become implicated in the ritualistic murder of a reclusive spinster they form an unlikely alliance. Drawn inexorably back almost two hundred years to historic, famine-blighted Ireland they discover more unsolved killings as the trail leads them into the lives of two families across four generations. Their discoveries unravel the source of the terrible mysterious curse of..... ..... A Man of Insignificance.