The story follows a man called Daniel Plowman. He loses his wife to cancer and is left to bring up his daughter alone, but one fateful day his daughter Emma-Louise disappears. After reporting her disappearance to the police, he decides to take matters into his own hands and look for his daughter Emma-Louise himself, but it means he has to revisit his past and walk a dark and dangerous path to try and find her, but what happens will change his life forever.