Early one morning the thirteen year old Minke Moorman is abducted on her way to school. Three years later she reappears from nowhere, completely bewildered and with a mysterious tattoo of wings on her back. When Minke is allowed to go back home and has to re-integrate, this isn’t easy for the whole family. Naturally Minke has been changed by her traumatic experiences, but unknown to everyone she is still being manipulated by her kidnapper: she is still under the shadow of the wings of The Sphinx.