But what had initially seemed an open-and-shut case takes on a disturbing dimension when he meets the prime suspect, the victim's wife, and is convinced that he knows her - even though they have never met. And when his insomnia becomes punctuated by dreams of a distant Scottish past in another century, this murder in the Gulf of St.

Lawrence leads him down a path he could never have foreseen, forcing him to face a conflict between his professional duty and his personal destiny.