'And you are telling me', said Gil Cunningham, 'that David Drummond vanished away forty years ago and is now returned, seemingly not a day older?' 'That's about the sum of it', agreed Sir William Stewart. In Sir William's remote part of Scotland it seems almost possible that a young boy could have been stolen away by the fairies and returned 40 years later, no older - and if he isn't Davie Drummond, who is he? And then he suffers a succession of near-fatal 'accidents'. Could there be a connection with 4 other local singers who have vanished, one of them with political information of value to Scotland's enemies...?