While struggling to cope with the emotional and physical impact of being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, single mother Sophie Harrington is tormented by a man from her past: her old neighbour Ronnie Cribbins. Cribbins has been dead for the past fifteen years and Sophie is faced with the possibility that his malevolent spirit could be the cause of her autoimmunity, because she can feel him attacking her senses from within. Enlisting the help of her new neighbour Piotr Kami¿ski, a troubled younger man with a dark past of his own, Sophie must look to her childhood in order to expose a secret she hadn't realised she'd kept hidden. Because if she doesn't recognise the truth, she, along with her eleven-year-old daughter, will be sucked into Cribbins' cold, black, stinking world forever. And in Cribbins' world there's no medication - just pain and sickness.