Can the past ever be left behind? Ask a flawed detective a former refugee and a government desperate to misuse a dead body to reshape Australia's security policy... Melbourne is a city on the brink suffering from arson-fed bush fires searing heatwaves and the potential threat of terrorism. Detective Inspector Robbie Gray falling foul of Police bureaucracy gets called to a body found lying in a rural swamp. When the nationality of the victim is revealed ASIO takes over her investigation and she is sidelined. Convinced they are misinterpreting the evidence Robbie - along with a disenfranchised policeman - secretly digs for the truth . . . and discovers an entirely different motive one which transcends international borders and exposes corruption in the humanitarian world.