While recovering from a car crash that killed her husband, DSS Jess Savage learns that Nathan, a young boy who has been missing for 5 years, has suddenly turned up alive.

Jess and her partner, Detective Sergeant Justin Harding, search for a girl who may have been held captive with Nathan.

A man approaches Jess demanding she help find his daughter, Chelsea, who has been missing for three weeks, after joining a group for backpackers.

The body of a young woman is found washed up by the bay, but it’s not clear if she is Chelsea. Jess confronts her daughter, Ruby, about her pregnancy.

When an ex-cop friend, Doug, calls Jess for help in the middle of the night, she walks in on a crime scene: Doug has shot and killed a local Māori man during a break-in.

As tensions rise between the police and the Māori community, Jess delves into the island’s drug trade. Jess reveals to Ruby what she has remembered about the crash.