Unearth the past and face the shadows. When a body is discovered at an archaeological dig site in Catalonia, Detective Elisenda Domenech is pulled into a chilling case. The victim, killed in the fashion of an ancient tribal ritual, dates not from ancient times, but from the 1980s. As Elisenda investigates a tangle of missing persons, academic rivalries, celebrity archaeologists and illegal antiquities, another brutal murder rocks the case.