Detective Fin Macleod is dragged back to his childhood home on the beautiful and remote Isle of Lewis, just off the west coast of Scotland. There has been a murder and he knows that the answers to who committed the brutal killing will be found deep within the close-knit local community. A community he grew up with. Old skeletons begin to resurface, old relationships are re-awakened and then the demons of Inspector Macleod's past begin to turn on him.