While digging peat in the mountains with Uncle Tally, Fergus uncovers the body of a child—and it looks like murder. Amidst a turbulent world—his brother’s hunger strike in prison, his feelings for Cora, his parents’ heated arguments about the Troubles, and his own dangerous entanglement as a blackmailed courier—Fergus is haunted by a mysterious voice in his dreams. Slowly, the secrets of the bog child begin to unravel.