Consumed by thoughts of revenge for the ambush and being shot twice where it hurts so bad he can't sit properly, Dimitri Alfieri plots revenge.

But even he is forced to realize he needs solid evidence before his Uncle will move against "those Hout Bay people."

He doesn't know it, but he's become a pawn in their game and when the stolen money is dumped in a very public space, Dimitri Alfieri becomes increasingly unraveled.

Frustrated, he hires local gangsters to exact the revenge he's looking for which backfires badly and worse, Cesar Quevedo, the abalone poacher who is his ally and friend, has fallen in love and is proving to be of little help.

But Cesar Quevedo has his own problems. The earlier killing of an abalone poacher to send out a message comes back to haunt him as an attempt is made on his life—that, in turn, leads to more deaths. The world of abalone poaching is not for the faint-hearted.