Une pianiste aveugle craint pour sa vie après la mort suspecte de sa voisine, la fille d'un homme d'affaires accusé de crimes de guerre.

David is a successful city trader in London who is relentlessly focused on work. Beneath the confident facade, he is trapped by memories of the past and hostile to anyone who dares to help. Flashbacks reveal a childhood in South Africa at the mercy of an inadequate bully of a father Donald and an ineffectual mother Joanne. The physical and sexual abuse he suffered threatens any chance of happiness he might have now.