When Alice finds her brother, Guy, guarding a corpse on family land in the early summer of 1947, she suspects the worst. Her father, who was the last person to have seen the deceased alive, refuses to talk about it to the police. As the investigation proceeds an evil network is revealed and persons of high status implicated. Alice and her lover Jeremy seek to clear her father's name by finding the killer - a task that becomes more difficult with every step they take.