Elena Balan should be laying low. After all, she's on the run from a horrifying mistake. A Romanian single mum, Elena arrives in London to discover that her lover, Frances, has vanished. To find her, Elena's 14-year-old daughter Ana enlists disgraced former police detective Robin Yarmouth. Although Frances' whereabouts remain a mystery, things begin looking up. Elena and Ana find an apartment, a job and a new school. Then Elena's sex worker neighbor and friend is found dead. The police are certain it's suicide. Elena knows otherwise and her instincts are not to let it go. But will Elena's investigations with Yarmouth prove her undoing?