When Nikos, a detective in the final years of his career, is persuaded back to his home town he is faced with the gory murder of a young boy near the old monastery. Echoing two murders committed 33 years previously in the exact same spot, and a mass cult suicide, it brings back a part of the island`s history that it has tried hard to forget. There is a lot at stake - the island`s lucrative tourist trade and the open secret of the drugs trade that goes hand in hand with the hordes of mainly young British holidaymakers.