After ten years in prison for shooting – and permanently crippling – a young policeman, Victor Jenner is released from prison to a strange new world and told to begin making a new life for himself.

It’s hard to fill the days, but at least there’s one blessing – he was never convicted for all those rapes he committed.

Then he meets – or actually, tracks down – David and Clare. David is the policeman Victor shot, and Clare – well, she’s David’s beautiful girlfriend. Who would have thought you could become friends with the very man whose fault it was that you lost ten years of life to a jail cell? Not Victor. But then, life is full of surprises…