Anna Whitaker's eldest daughter, thirteen-year-old Julie, was kidnapped from her home while her mother and father slept downstairs and did not suspect anything. Anna spent eight years with a monstrous feeling of guilt and emptiness in her soul, not even hoping that her daughter was still alive. But then one day the doorbell rang in the Whitaker house, and a blonde girl, exhausted and barefoot, appeared on the threshold. She looks like a grown-up Julie, but can the missing girl be found after such a long time? This mind-bending thriller is built on flashbacks, the action of which unfolds in reverse order, marking the terrible path from loss, guilt and alienation to reconciliation with oneself.