Widower Michael Farr has been seeing and hearing strange thnigs late at night in his house. When volunteering at a local international literary festival he finds himself drawn to Lena Morelle, the attractive authour of supernatural novels.
Lena has come to the festival at the bidding of world-renowned novelist Nicholas Holden with whom she had a brief affair. As the festival progresses the trajectories of these three people draw them into a life-altering collision between the living and the dead.