In schools everywhere children are bullied for being different. Most suffer no long-term damage. Others develop deep psychological problems. In the case of one child, now grown, the taunts had consequences no one could have foreseen for the kindness of one boy so many years ago resulted in a decades old obsession. A chance encounter on a special day for Cadogan Cain triggers a series of horrifying events that bring him face-to-face with an adversary more cunning and dangerous than any he has ever known.