Quiet and complacent Eleanor Hanna is jolted out of her silent reveries when she encounters a strange, unsettling woman and an inexplicable paranormal force on a late summer day in the year 1915. As the mystery begins to engulf her, it sets her on a collision course with the injustices of involuntary commitment and the hideous aspirations of the popular eugenics movement. If Eleanor Hanna is going to solve the puzzle in time to save the strange woman from an insane asylum, she must shed her quiet complacency, summon her courage, and rally to the hour of greatest need.