Kevin Miller (Gerard Rooney), a young Protestant journalist from Belfast, is deeply affected by the death of his father (Seamus Ball). As a result of arriving at work drunk, he is dispatched to The Chronicle, a sister paper in the small, seedy town of Crossmaheart. Jamie Milburn, his predecessor, has disappeared, presumed dead. Miller arrives on his trusty mountain bike bringing his conscience with him in the shape of his father's ghost. There he discovers his new editor, O'Hagan (Enda Oates), is doing little to find out what has happened to Jamie but Miller is told not to become involved. Mistakenly going into a Republican pub, Miller meets Marie (Maria Lennon), Jamie's girlfriend, a  highly strung Catholic girl. They hit it off right away. Marie is haunted by a recurrent nightmare of a sexual assault in her youth. She believes Jamie was killed because of a story on which he was working. Miller decides to carry out his own investigation. After talking to maverick cop, Craig (Des Cave), Miller suspects Jamie's disappearance may be connected to Marie's assault. The fifteen year old file on her case reveals the names of three men found guilty. One by one Miller tracks them down and confronts them. Craig hints there may have been a fourth rapist, a juvenile, protected by law. Further investigation reveals this to be his editor, O'Hagan who kills himself when confronted. Justice done, Marie and Miller, in love, return to Belfast.