When a child goes missing the day after the murder of a mother, the Northern community of Berton explodes with concern and fear. Anna Freemont, a child protection worker, feels weighty responsibility to fulfill her responsibilities and save the children. All of the children. Feeling the grief of her widowed, childless life through the terrible traumas, the newly minted social worker looks for purpose in her job, in her relationships and in her most secret thoughts. Anna and her brother Jimmy, a community RCMP officer, climb the mountain of trauma brought to the community by a deranged mind....