When the body of a missing teenager is discovered buried on the moors, Vera is forced to delve into the life and the secrets of the victim.

Vera is confronted with a tragic mystery when the dead body of teenager Ethan Dewley is found floating in a reservoir in a remote rural town, DCI Vera Stanhope must scrutinise the fractured relationships of the surrounding community to find his killer.

DCI Stanhope must open up a familiar cold case to find the connection with a present-day murder.