On the way back to school for the first time after her maternity leave Janine witnesses a hit and run outside her son's school. While wishing to investigate, she is at the same time summoned to view a corpse found in the river.

A popular Mullah dies in a house fire and all the evidence points to a local politician. Janine thinks there's more to it, but nobody in the Muslim community will talk to her.

""What first looks like a straightforward suicide case soon turns much more sinister.

When the only witness to a woman's murder is an autistic boy who cannot communicate what he saw, Janine has to get to the truth another way.