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'The nights aren't too cold yet, lucky thing. Otherwise we'd be having a different conversation.' Jessica Mowbrie, beaten and dumped in the bush like a sack of garbage and lying comatose in a hospital bed – lucky to be alive. Lorraine Henry doesn't think Jess is so lucky. She thinks whoever hurt her needs to be hunted down. But the Masterton police are isolated and underresourced, and to be honest, even though Lorraine works for them, she thinks they're a bit hopeless. So it might be up to Lorraine to do the hunting. She's not getting any younger, of course.

In 1969, at the height of the Vietnam war, nurse Rowie Leonard is serving a 12-month tour of duty. She supports the war and is committed to caring for wounded New Zealand and Australian troops. After a few months, however, she realises that nothing at all about the conflict is as clear-cut as she'd assumed.

Masterton isn’t a big town. The community’s tight, if not always harmonious. So when a child goes missing, it’s a big deal for everyone. And when a second kid disappears, the whole town holds their own children that little bit tighter.