After her father's death, Deidre Hart finds a beaten, time-worn satchel hidden in his wardrobe filled with sketches and hand drawn maps of a place she's never heard of, by a relation she never knew existed, hinting at a secret she'd never been told about. This discovery takes her on a journey from Sydney Australia to the Shetland Islands where she encounters an unknown heritage of madness, obsession and curses. They warned her to be careful. Curses can be catching.