Vukovar, 1992 ? a small Croatian village near the Serbian border. In a moonlit field, villagers await an arms shipment they need for a last-ditch fight against the advancing Serbs. It never comes, and the village is overrun. Eighteen years later, a body is unearthed from a field, and with it the identity of the man who betrayed them. In leafy England, Harvey Gillott is about to find out what happens when the hand of the past reaches out to the present.,