Summer 1995. On her tenth birthday July's teacher sets the class a project to find out about a relation they don't know. It's easy for July to choose her subject. She doesn't remember her mother who died when she was small and her father refuses to talk about her. Ever. The only memories she has of her are flashbacks from the accident that claimed her mother's life._x000D_But then she receives the note: 'She didn't die in a car accident.' _x000D_Determined to discover what really happened July begins to investigate cycling around the street where her family used to live and questioning the neighbours. When she is caught snooping round a crumbling house at the end of the road she learns that the man living there was the last person to see July's mother alive.