Vimes on holiday - a concept that fills everyone, including Vimes, with dread. Dragged to the countryside by his wife Sybil, Vimes discovers that goblins - the most despised creatures on the Disc - are being enslaved and murdered. What follows is Vimes doing what Vimes does, but far from the streets of Ankh-Morpork and the support of his Watch. A novel about who counts as human, and what happens when the law fails the people who need it most.