A simple guy from the working-class district of Faithful Place, Frank Mackey, and his beloved Rosie Daley decide to run away together from home. But Rosie doesn’t show up at the meeting place at the appointed hour. Years pass: Frank makes an excellent career in the police, yet all these years he is tormented by the question — why, back in his youth, his beloved girl betrayed him? The terrible truth is revealed unexpectedly. And from that day on, fate begins to strike Frank again and again. Chilling events twist into an unimaginable knot, pulling his own family, friends, and even Frank’s adored daughter into it. And at some point he faces a choice: what matters more to him — the duty of a policeman or the duty of a man?