‘The first thing they question is your memory. You must hold on to it, at any cost.’
1900
Asylum attendant, Katy Owen, hates the isolation, the bars on the windows, and the way the mad women watch her. She should not believe their delusional tales, but when her charge talks of murder, she is drawn into a story of tragedy and conspiracy that threatens her own sanity.
1956
Iris Lowe is a nurse on the infamous Ward 13 at Smedley Psychiatric Hospital. After one patient receives her first visitor in over fifty years, Iris suspects there might be more to her story than meets the eye.
As she battles against buried secrets, Iris unearths harrowing and heart-wrenching atrocities that span almost a century.
But is it too late to serve justice?