Private Detective Lew Archer doesn’t believe in coincidences…A forest fire has mysteriously broken out in the hills above southern California. Meanwhile Lew Archer has been asked by a desperate mother to find her six-year-old son. Instead he discovers the boy’s wealthy father murdered and buried in a hole in the ground. The mystery will lead Archer to unearth a tragic years-old history of abandonment obsession and illusion where the past won’t let go of the present – and everything is connected.