Harry Harrigan is a young Australian accountant who’s been forced to return to his rural hometown by his brutal father who threatens harm to his mother unless Harry comes to work for him. Harry is trapped but eventually fights his father and escapes Monaldo with his mother. He’s employed quickly by a big American company which trains him as a financial investigator and sends him off into the world, perhaps never to return to Australia, and leaving behind Sara, the love of his life, who’s trapped in an unhappy marriage. He’s engaged in one of the company’s biggest investigations, in Europe, when he takes a recreational flight one Sunday, to relax. The engine on his light plane stops and Harry recalls vague rumours of an attempt on his life. He thinks of Sara as he drifts silently over the coast of Dover, far below…