A gypsy woman, Suzanne, disappears on the night of a stag party and is found dead two days later in the countryside in a horrific state: holes had been drilled in her skull and maggots inserted into it, eating away at her brain. What's even more shocking is that she died in the same way as her sister, Laura, did seven years earlier! What these two sisters had in common was that they were both young and beautiful, and both were about to marry "non-Gypsies". The Gypsies are a wandering, socially ostracized and closed group of people in Europe. Marrying an outsider is a form of flight and betrayal... could this be the reason for Susannah's death? But Laura's murderer has already been arrested, and now that he is in prison, he is unlikely to commit a new crime. Is this a copycat, a racial slur, a sex crime, or a serial killer?