Wannabe singer, Venus Baxter has arrived back in Montserrat, her childhood home, but there is no one to welcome her. She finds herself in an island devastated by years of volcanic activity, with nowhere for her to stay. The long-lost father she had intended to visit is a fugitive up in the hills. The Montserrat police prohibit her from joining him. It is Cooper, who has enough problems of his own, who comes to the rescue, leading her on a quest through the forbidden zones that ends at a ruined mansion, a ruined man and a riddle which revives the demons of their own pasts.