Imagine that your home is on a picturesque communal garden square, an oasis in urban London where your kids run free of charge, in and out of other people’s homes. You’ve known your neighbours for years and you trust them. Implicitly. You think your kids are safe. But are they really?

On a midsummer night, as a festive neighborhood party is occurring, preteen Pip discovers her thirteen-year-old sister Grace lying unconscious and bloody in a hidden corner of the lush rose backyard. What really happened to her? And who is responsible?