After his father's death, Hal Ward and his mum move to the Quarry Hill Estate in Leeds, to try and start a new life. The summer of 1968 stretches out long and dreary, and there's nothing to distract Hal and his new friend Shahid from the mystery of the masked, sinister Rag and Bone Manwho saw so much with no eyesor the secrets simmering under the rambling estate's surface.