30 years ago, in the suffocating heat of a Sydney summer, the Greens' next-door neighbour Mandy disappeared without a trace. In 1997, in a basement flat in Hackney, Isla Green is awakened by a call in the middle of the night: her father is under suspicion of Mandy's murder. How well does Isla know her father? Is he capable of doing something terrible? And is there another secret in their community—a conspiracy of silence which stretches deep into Australia's past?
