The summer of sixteen-year-old Ivy begins in a peculiar way - terrible offerings on the threshold of her house, fragments of childhood memories, suspicions... And it seems that her mother Dana is not who Ivy thought she was. Many years ago, sixteen-year-old Dana began a dizzying love affair with magic. But she realized too late that the terrible forces with which she was playing were also playing with her. The magical world has come to claim what is its.