In the dark underbelly of Edinburgh 1828, Burke and Hare enter a pact as they venture on a murder spree, selling the bodies of their victims to anatomist Dr Knox, but unbeknown to them, journalist Archibald Johnson hurtles into a path of danger and intrigue that will lead him to reveal all in a city where the two worlds of rich and poor collide in a melting pot of greed, corruption and power.