Grandparents are found dead buried to their necks on the beach

A sheriff investigating the disappearance of a young girl from a small island discovers there's a larger mystery to solve among the island's secretive, neo-pagan community.

Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. Stranger still, however, are the rituals that take place there.

The bodies of murdered young women are turning up on a beach.

A man dies of a heart attack and his wife hides the body in order to continue collecting pension.