In 1995, seventeen-year-old Isabel Baker was murdered. The crime shocked the small town of Ashford and devastated Isabel's Australian South Sea Islander community. The case was never solved, the killer never found. In 2020, the opening of a time capsule unearths a secret that puts cold-case detective James Cormack on the trail of the killer.

A criminal from Chicago who bungles a heist is forced to hideout in a small Australian reef town in Far North Queensland posing as the new church Reverend.