When ten activists go missing in Zimbabwe, brilliant young lawyer Abigail Bukula is called in. Among the missing ten, believed to be held at the notorious Chikurubi prison, is Abigail's cousin – a gifted writer and the child of an aunt who died in the Gukuruhandi massacres of the early 1980s. Reading her cousin's work and trying to understand him, Abigail turns to eccentric psychologist Yudel Gordon, whom she hasn't seen in years. Yudel follows Abigail to Zimbabwe where she wins the court battle for the prisoners' release, but at Chikurubi there is no trace of them. In the days to follow, Abigail and Yudel search for the missing activists in a race against time. They uncover a relationship no one could have anticipated in a country struggling to throw off the dictatorship of the past, and where success and tragedy sit like Siamese twins.