Laura is a mentally ill young girl whose sickness is only getting worse as she is carted in and out of "Gymnopedie," a famed mental hospital. While she is going through this, another woman, Lilith, is living in Gymnopedie in the 19th century, and though neither woman is aware of the other their stories overlap with an eerie synchronicity as they both slowly try heal themselves against the inauspicious odds with their shared enduring passion: writing. But Gymnopepdie is a strange world, with many strange wonders.