Memories have power...Summer 1980. Despite local superstitions, three girlfriends go for a walk in the forest. Only one is returned. She doesn’t remember anything except that they saw something terrible in the forest. Summer 2022. On the outskirts of the city, a fresh grave is discovered in which a woman of about fifty is found buried alive, clutching a pendant in the shape of half a heart - exactly the same as the girl who disappeared twenty years ago. The murder investigation is entrusted to detective Van Reed and forensic scientist Harry Steinbeck. And while Harry trusts the facts, Van trusts his intuition. While Van and Harry link crimes past and present, Van struggles with memories of her own nightmare childhood—and the fear that uncovering the truth about the kidnapped girls will lead her down a path from which she might never return...