Late in the evening, journalist Ben Harper returns home to the London suburb of Hadley when he notices that the abandoned club at the local church is on fire. He sees the figure of a man in the doorway and rushes to his aid. Saved from the fire — it is impossible to recognize him in the smoke and flames — he immediately runs away. Later, when the police establish that the club was deliberately set on fire, and the corpse of a woman killed 20 years ago is found in the foundation of the burned building, Ben will have many questions. With the help of his longtime friend, the former publisher of the local newspaper Sam Hardy, he begins his own investigation and gradually becomes convinced that behind the peaceful facade of their fashionable town there are dramas, tragedies and even crimes, many of which are rooted in the distant past. Maybe you can't trust anyone here at all?