It's been twenty-five years since the war that tore the former Yugoslavia apart came to an end. Some wounds never heal, as detective Zeljko Zorgic and his daughter Nela learn when they are asked to solve a cold case. It involves an elderly man who was killed after paramilitaries unleashed a night of terror in the Croatian borderlands, but was he the victim of fanatical bloodlust or was he targeted for reasons unconnected to ethnic cleansing? As the investigation navigates endless twists and turns, the story gets pushed further and further back until the Second World War is never far from the traumatic events that unfold.