Dr Jarod Ulrich, Headmaster of Sydney Boys' Christian College, has been harbouring a terrible secret for twenty-eight years. He has been living with the guilt and shame for all of his adult life.

A strange beautiful woman visits him and drops a bombshell, informing him that she is aware of his secret. She wants Jarod to enrol her delinquent son in is college and protect him from expulsion until he graduates; otherwise she will go to the police and reveal all.

Dr Ulrich suddenly finds himself caught on the horns of a terrible moral dilemma. He suffers a gradual decline, morally, spiritually and physically. Once a headmaster of impeccable standards and ethics, he descends into a state of amoral depravity as his human dignity slips inexorably away.

The webs of deception into which he becomes entwined finally engulf him. His life hangs by a thread...