On his eleventh birthday Jacob's father gives him a diary. To write in about things that happen. About what he and his father do on their farm. About the sheep the crop the fox and the dam. But Jacob knows some things should not be written down. Some things should not be remembered. The only things he knows for sure is what his father has taught him. He is sheltered protected isolated. But who is his father protecting him from? And how far will his father go to keep the world at bay? All too soon Jacob will learn that sometimes we all have to do terrible things . . .