Heath is a young Victorian detective, 1890, trying to solve the case of a missing girl in the countryside near the small town of Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland. Others go missing, a witness is murdered and an evil sect is discovered. He is suspicious of some of his colleages but finds help in unexpected places. Two women interest him and a third brings back memories of his hard childhood in an orphanage. Can he save the girls from a terrible fate?