When, recently retired literature professor, Harriet "Harry" Wild becomes the victim of a mugging, she goes to stay with her son, Charlie, a senior detective in the Gardai. Realising Charlie's latest murder investigation bears striking similarities to an obscure Elizabethan play, she offers her help. When that offer is rudely rejected, Harry decides she will find the killer herself to prove she was right. Proving herself right is a big thing for Harry. Little does she know that one decision is going to lead her to a whole new life.