In a picturesque corner of Ireland, above a white-foamed bay, in a beautiful house on a hill, there lived a father and mother and six children: three sons and three daughters. They lived richly and happily until the middle son disappeared - as if he had fallen through the ground. The mother did not survive the grief and passed away before her time, and the children scattered around the world. But ten years later, the missing son returned to his native nest... The story told by the recognized master Joe Spain sounds like a fairy tale. Only the reality described in it will be much more terrible than any fiction, because the “return of the prodigal son” is marked by the murder of his father!