Penny Small is a nine year old child who has lost both her parents in a car crash at the begining of the year, still suffering the effects of the crash and lossing her mother and father she is living with her grandfather (ex- special forces) but is abducted when she tries to help her drunken neighbour by a serial killer who is targeting the drunk who is a leading police officer in the Strathclyde Police force in the small town of Coatbribge, Detective Seargent Pope Cole is using drink and drugs to see and speak to his dead wife who was killed by the serial killer after Pope mocked him on live TV, Pope decides to find her with the help of his gangster sister and Penny's grandfather.