A grisly thriller set near the Millennium Dome in Greenwich, England, opens on a chilling note. A young woman has been found brutally murdered, and among the gruesome discoveries at the crime scene is a live bird sewn inside the mangled corpse. Enter Detective Inspector Jack Caffrey, the emotionally tormented golden boy of the crime unit. Fending off professional rivalry, stumbling through a rocky romantic relationship, and obsessing over the pedophilic neighbor he believes murdered his brother are occupations eating away at his psyche. When more bodies with similar mutilations begin to surface, Caffrey's grim existence sinks to the depths. Can he find the killer?