When Mark Formby moves to the Irish countryside after his remote and unkind father is injured in a drugs bust and put on furlough from the Irish Gardai, he believes that his life has taken an even more unpleasant turn.
For a boy whose only close relationship is with his mother, to be in the countryside means making a friend will be even harder.
Meanwhile, across the field from the Formby family, Seamus Brenson is wary of his new neighbours; he is hiding a dark secret he wishes to remain.
