Many years ago, the stern grandmother Persephone Zarrin sent her granddaughter Eleanor to a girls' school. The letters that young Eleanor wrote to her family always went unanswered, but after a terrible incident at school, she is forced to return to the only place she considers safe - home. But her family is not only not happy to see her, it seems they are ready to eat her. In the literal sense of the word. Finding herself in a hopeless situation, young Eleanor tries to get to know and love her family again, and at the same time discuss that “incident at school” with her grandmother. But she doesn’t have time - her grandmother dies in her arms, having taken an oath to take care of her family, as she herself had done for many years. Eleanor is desperately trying to fulfill her promise, but to do this she needs to defeat the darkness inside herself...