The drama unfolds when Tori Lustigman relocates from the country to her childhood suburb of Bondi with her teenage son Will, to put the past firmly behind her and start life over. Partnered with Detective Nick Manning, they're assigned to investigate the brutal murder of a young man whose mutilated corpse is found in an apartment. Is this brutal murder a domestic, a robbery gone wrong, or something far more sinister?

Reeling with guilt, Nick and Tori investigate the death of Toohey and his past links to the Pointers gang. Tori questions the last person to see Toohey alive - his lawyer, Simon Mawbrey.

With Oscar surviving a brutal attack, Nick and Tori desperately reach back into the past and discover a vital lead previously masked by some very dodgy detective work.