Centuries have passed since that terrible night of reckoning, but still the dark shadow hangs over a Scottish valley. Bob Coyle believes that his home town is menaced by a new centre for disposing of nuclear waste - a lethally dangerous project he calls 'Holocaust'. Yet his efforts to alert the people fall upon deaf - or angry - ears. For them the center means new-found prosperity. But a series of strange deaths and brutal killings at last starts to bring home the danger ...