Marnie has a settled life working in a London puppet museum when she gets a phone call telling her that a once-loved friend is dying. She leaves the puppets in the care of her ditzy former stepdaughter and sets off for an isolated cottage in the Scottish Highlands. There is unfinished business between Marnie, the dying Ralph and their friend Oliver. Will Ralph say what needs to be said? It's a kind of thriller of the emotions that keeps you guessing and questioning to the end.