DC Rachel Bailey of Manchester Metropolitan Police is angry at being dumped by her married lover, a barrister named Nick Savage. She joins her colleague on the major incident team, DC Janet Scott, to investigate the murder, made to resemble a suicide, of a pregnant Turkish girl named Emel Yilmatz. Janet is approached by her old friend Geoff to reopen a dead case, and Rachel obsesses about getting revenge on Nick while making an arrest.