Summer, 1976. A plane crashes on a farm in the Cambridgeshire Fens. Out of the flames walks young Maggie Beck, clutching a baby in her arms'''¬Â] Twenty-seven years later, investigative journalist Philip Dryden '''¬'' visiting his wife, Laura in hospital '''¬'' is witness to Maggie'''¬'"[s deathbed confession. But some secrets are best kept secret, and what started out for Dryden as a small and curious story about the only survivor of an almost-forgotten plane crash soon escalates into a full-blown murder investigation. And while Dryden is wondering what other secrets Maggie carried, his semi-conscious wife is trying to tell him something that might just save his life'''¬Â].