In Ireland, a coroner's inquest held into six missing children drives reporter Peter Walsh to question his loyalties as he follows a cold trail to understand what happened. Circumstances surrounding their disappearance are tainted with an almost supernatural element which confuses the authorities.Peter is soon swallowed by the colossal scale of influences behind the disappearances and it becomes clear that fundamental powers that remain in in the edges of our perception have been locked in battle and threaten the survival of the human race.As more layers to the story are exposed a global arena of intrigue, collusion and deceit climax in Rome, a place recognized as a guiding light to millions of souls around the planet may indeed have been nothing more than a ignis fatuus, a light that could lead us all to our death.