American anthropologist, Agnes, is called in to study a bog body found in northern England. Perfectly preserved for 2,000 years, the finding fascinates the public and the archaeologists who want to examine the body and the surroundings. Local peat cutters are frustrated because they are being kept from, harvesting the peat they need to make money. And there are climatologists and scientists who have noticed something unusual in the layers of soil around the body. Add in local pagans who don’t want the body disturbed and Agnes has a veritable circus on her hands. This is a fascinating and often sobering reminder of how we view our world and our place in it’s ultimate survival or destruction