Caroline Stern is just like any London teenager. Except that she lives in a religious sect.
As a child of 'The Organisation' her every move – from what she eats to when she talks and who she'll marry – is dictated by her elders. But as Caroline's free-thinking ways bring her into conflict with terrifying Miss Fowler and brutal punishments push her to breaking point, she acts on a terrible impulse and exacts a horrifying revenge.
Twenty years later and Caroline is living with her lover Joe. He knows her as Lorrie and is unaware of the troubled childhood she's left behind. Until an old friend reappears and Caroline discovers that the past isn't so easily buried...