Defense attorney Robert Stern is shocked when he sees who the mysterious client is with whom he is supposed to meet on a remote and run-down industrial site: Simon, a ten-year-old boy, fragile, terminally ill – and firmly convinced that he had been a murderer in a previous life. But Robert Stern's amazement turns to horror and confusion when he actually finds human remains in the cellar Simon has described: a skeleton with the skull split with an axe. And this is just the beginning. Because Robert has no idea that from now on death will be his constant companion ...