For generations, Blackwood Bay, a quaint village in northern England, has been famous only for the smuggling that occurred along its coastline centuries ago. Then two local girls disappear, bringing the town a fresh and dark notoriety.
When Alex, an ambitious documentary filmmaker, arrives in Blackwood Bay, she intends to have the residents record their own stories. But instead of a quaint community, Alex finds a village blighted by economic downturn and haunted by tragedy.
Alex pushes on with her work, but secrets old and new rise to the surface, raising tensions in a town already on edge – and her investigation threatens to lead to a deadly unravelling.
