"Henry Stanfield, the Truth Commissioner, is estranged from his daughter and struggles with the consequences of his infidelities... Francis Gilroy, veteran Republican and government minister, risks losing something tantalisingly close to his grasp... In America, Danny and his girlfriend happily await the arrival of their first child, little knowing that he will return to Belfast, rupturing the life they've begun... James Fenton, travelling to a Romanian orphanage with a van full of supplies, will be forced to confront his betrayal of a teenage boy years before... In a society that heals past scars with the salve of reconciliation, four men's lives become linked in a way they couldn't have imagined. And the secret they share threatens to destroy what they have built in the present.--Publisher description.