Class-matched since childhood, Tristram and Imogene, are delighted when Estera joins their explorative teenage idyll. However, privilege is no protection when, at St Andrews, sexism and abuse, blood and violence, alongside a remerging xenophobia dismantles their student hopes. How to break their cycle of dissipated self-indulgence? The answer is in a hidden past, a face blind child, Maya, and her dysfunctional family.