Ria lived and worked in London for years,one day, two unrelated events,a face on the street and a newspaper story suddenly awaken events that she has tried hard to forget - the strange happenings of almost 30 years ago when she took on the role of Guardian at the Convent of Maria Goretti boarding school in the Irish midlands. Who was the girl in the graveyard? And what was the cause of the strange noises coming from the disused dormitories? And who was Little Frances, the subject of the sinister rhyme chanted by the students? What secrets did the Convent hide back then, in 1987? And who is the body that has been found in the bog in 2015? It seems that the past has come to find Ria, and that the time has come for her to finally confront the events that changed her life