Beyond the Western coast of Ireland lies the Great Blasket Island. It was once home to a small, fiercely independent community of people but by November 1953 the island had been abandoned forever. We follow the fate of one family, the Kearneys, and their search for new lives in America.
It was meant to be a harmless stag night prank. A few hours later four of his best friends are dead and Michael Harrison has disappeared. With only three days to the wedding, Detective Superintendent Grace - a man haunted by the shadow of his own missing wife - is contacted by Michael's beautiful, distraught fiancée, Ashley Harper. Grace discovers that the one man who ought to know Michael Harrison's whereabouts...