How does it feel when the person you love doesn't come home? Carmel Devine's world is shattered when her husband, Sean, disappears on the evening of her 33rd birthday party. There are no clues, no witnesses, no missing passport or used credit cards. The police are initially reluctant to act. When a local prostitute is found brutally murdered it begins, incredibly, to look as though Sean could be responsible. Carmel's life becomes a nightmare as her work suffers, she is ostracised by friends and the local community, and hounded by the police. She is also being watched. But by whom? And why? She tries to hold things together for the sake of her young daughter, Maeve. Determined to uncover the truth behind Sean's disappearance, someone is equally determined to stop her.