Patrick Hinde has moved on from his painful past. He is a loving husband to Belinda and a caring father to toddler Daniel. But when his parents come to stay one fateful weekend, his state-of-mind is catapulted back to his childhood. By the time they leave, Patrick feels emotionally wrung out. The last thing he remembers that day is strapping Daniel into his car seat, intending to drop him off at the child minder. Instead, anxious and distracted, he drives straight to his surgery, parks the car, gets out and locks it - leaving Daniel inside, forgotten. Five years later we are in a village in south-west France. Leonie, an English woman living there, finds herself attracted to a withdrawn man who calls himself Patrice. He has no wife, no child, and he refuses ever to get inside a car. When Leonie finds out what Patrice has done, will she still want him? Will Patrice reveal or evade the truth of his past as he moves forward into a new relationship? These are just some of the questions Isabelle Grey explores in this suspenseful and thought-provoking novel.