When a romantic evening by the water ends in a suicide pact, police soon recover the body of a young woman-but the body of her lover has disappeared.

Paul Dangerfield and his colleagues at the practice are worried when patients report home visits by a GP using their surgery's name as a calling card.

Following the death of his wife, William Ashurst an old friend of Paul Dangerfield's father, returns to the area of his childhood, but is regarded with suspicion by the other residents of the Foxwood estate.