Osman Zahir, a Turkish Cypriot Inspector based in Girne, takes on his first murder case. When two bodies are unearthed by a digger for a housing development company, and one of the men whom Osman questions is found murdered in his home the following morning, a number of suspects begin to emerge including the dead man's middle-aged daughter and Gorus, a local businessman and reputed paedophile. Osman's investigations are complicated further when Zelfa Urfa, an attractive and ambitious Turkish female inspector from Istanbul, is seconded to investigate the case.