Alice thought she had lost everything when her husband's yacht was found empty and adrift. He had slipped out to sail under the stars and is never coming back. A year on, Alice and her two children are still struggling to come to terms with their new life - but their troubles are only beginning...One sunny day, Alice's children don't come home. The police are caught up in interdepartmental battles and Alice, now very much alone in the world, believes the only way she can save her children is to find them herself. But as the questions multiply, the answers grow ever more elsuive.