Fifteen-year-old Kala Lannan disappeared from the tourist town of Kinlough in November 2003. No
trace was ever found - until now when her remains are discovered at a local building site. The
day after the grisly discovery Helen Laughlin Kala's best friend and confidante reluctantly
returns to the town she ran from ten years before. Helen falls in with two other members of
their teenage gang - Mush scarred and scared to leave the safety of his ma's café on the high
street and the Famous Joe Brennan Kala's boyfriend a commercially successful but emotionally
conflicted musician newly returned in an effort to dry out and reconnect with something
authentic in life. Their actions over the following days are propelled by the need to
understand what happened to the girl who meant so much to each of them and whose disappearance
upended their lives. But to find answers they have to confront their own complicity in the
events that led to Kala's disappearance. Ultimately they must do what others should have done
before them to stop the violent patterns of their town's past repeating themselves once
again...
