In this gritty and darkly authentic detective thriller Philip Madoc (The Life and Times of David Lloyd George) is the memorably charismatic Detective Chief Inspector Noel Bain - a man with a passion for defending the innocent and an infallible instinct which even the sharpest criminal minds cannot match. Bain is a widower and alongside the complex and frequently disturbing cases that come his way he must also face the challenges of caring for his teenaged daughter Hannah.