A group of people survived an invasion of a village; they fled into the mountains and eventually found a home the Earth Mother called Thar. Thar's only water source is a well, a cursed well that needs to be cleansed on the seventeenth day of every month so that peace can reign in the village.
Betrayal and disobedience come together in this story, following how friends betray each other and how a family of six children finds a shocking truth about The Cursed Well.