A noted professor of anthropology - a widowed father of a young son- has a dark other life. He's captured and imprisoned an 8 year old girl in a shipping container. Fourteen years on, she's discovered alive..
In different strands, the fallout of the event is described.
The professor's son, struggling to understand and reconcile the caring parent with the monster...his fixation on the girl now, and the guilt...
The girl's mother, with issues of her own, learning to cope with the traumatized adult who's returned to her life.
Laura herself...cast out of the womb-like container into a bright swarming world.
And one further character...
Cleverly constructed, packs a punch. ( )