The Great War still casts a dark shadow over a grieving widow and a wounded soldier, thrown together in the search for answers to a mysterious disappearance. 

In 1917 Helen's husband, Charlie Morrow, vanished without a trace in the battle of Passchendaele and now his widow, Australian, Helen Morrow, has brought her daughter to England to meet her husband's family and discover the truth about Charlie's death.

The only person who can tell her what happened is Charlie's cousin, the reclusive Paul Morrow but, haunted by his own ghosts and badly wounded in the same action, he cannot recall the events the events of that fateful night.

The discovery of a coded diary, leads Helen and Paul on a quest to solve the mysterious disappearance of a young woman, two hundred years earlier. Did she abscond with her lover or did she die on the night she vanished?

In their search to resolve the mystery of Suzanna's disappearance, Paul's memory of that night in 1917 begins to return bringing with it all the horror of the trenches that he has tried to put behind him.

As their search to find answers to the two deaths becomes entwined, Paul and Helen come up against forces from the past and present determined to keep them apart.

Will they find the strength to face their adversaries and find peace and happiness together?