1956 Ivy Jenkins, pregnant by her lover, ends up in one of the monastery shelters for unmarried mothers, notorious in Great Britain and Ireland. Here young women are tortured and humiliated, starved and worked hard, and their children are taken away and sold for adoption to rich childless couples...Our days. Young ambitious journalist Samantha Harper dreams of a story that would be a breakthrough in her career - and accidentally stumbles upon a letter signed by a certain Ivy. In this letter, the unfortunate woman begs to be rescued from the hellish “shelter” before it’s too late. What happened? Did Ivy manage to escape? Samantha begins to investigate this tragic story - and suddenly notices an unusual number of strange deaths that have befallen people associated with the “orphanage”. What is this - a purge of witnesses? Or revenge for past sins? Samantha understands that she and her loved ones may also be in danger...