When eight-year-old Josh Kirkwood disappears, the whole community of Deer Lake is stunned. Crime is something that happens on the evening news, or in the big cities, not in their neighbourhood. Worse still, is the frightening possibility that Josh's disappearance is not just a random attack, but planned by a desperately warped mind - for all that is found at the crime scene is Josh's duffel bag with a note stuffed inside: 'ignorance is not innocence but SIN'.