Following a family crisis, Eoin Ryan finds himself working in a soul-crushing call centre under a malevolent, bullying supervisor. It's there that he receives an unusual offer: to teach history at a remote island commune. With nothing to lose, the generally reserved academic quickly accepts.

Eoin leaves Dublin, a city in the throes of a climate emergency, and travels west, only to join a settlement cloaked in secrecy, where the inhabitants harbour dangerous ideas.

When Eoin unravels the true purpose of his calling, he begins to question his decision to join the settlement. But on a rain-soaked island in western Ireland, surrounded by society’s misfits, he’ll soon realise that a change of heart can be murder.