The badgers' Nightworld on the South Devon coast is a secret place, washed by storms and starlight ... a world of solitary beauty and mystery - and great danger. For the badger baiters, with their acrid man-smell, have discovered Big Sett. Their vicious dogs and brutal traps bring bitter pain and a vision of death to the brave badger sow Aspen, to wise old Hawscrag and their fellow sett-dwellers. But the badgers will discover that not all men are evil, as other, kinder humans intervene to help them in their bloody and heroic struggle ...