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?

After a fatal shooting, tensions rise between Tori and Nick. Meanwhile, another body is found and evidence link a former football legend to the past crimes.

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.