A 40-year-old writer returns to his family house where he was raised and that he escaped after half a lifetime – to face his brother who stayed instead, inherited their family bakery and married the woman who they both loved.

A series of brutal murders puts the lives of three men on a collision course: The father of the latest victim now out for revenge, a vigilante police detective operating outside the boundaries of law, and the main suspect in the killings – a religious studies teacher arrested and released due to a police blunder.