 moll lives on the channel island of jersey even though she is twentyseven years old she still lives with her parents what keeps her there is the small rather oppressive community which surrounds her and her morbid relationship with her elderly father and very strict mother everything changes when she meets pascal a foreigner she knows virtually nothing about but who wins her over with his free spirit moll who is hopelessly in love goes to live with him and begins a new life but her happiness is shortlived pascal is accused of having committed a series of brutal murders despite the hostility and the pressure of the locals moll stands by her man but she will have to pay the consequences of this decision michael pearce  