On 28 August 1984, Josef Fritzl, drugged his teenage daughter with ether and imprisoned her in an underground bunker, behind eight locked doors. Over the following twenty-four years, he raped and abused her, never letting her or the children she bore him out of the dark, windowless cellar. This account investigates the meticulous planning, the chilling confessions and the disturbing personality that lie behind this horrific case of abuse.