Jules Carlisle, the youngest and most recently qualified member of the firm, knew very little about illegal immigration and asylum and would have liked to keep it that way. But her last appointment before Easter is an asylum case with a difference, a young Serb who believes his brother has died at the hands of people-smugglers on his way to England. Jules, who wanted to hand the case over at the earliest opportunity to her senior partner, finds herself drawn inexorably into great danger, and back into the territory of the abused childhood she thought she had escaped forever.