A large-scale canvas on the level of the TV series “Knickerbocker Hospital” and “Call the Midwife.” A detective thriller on the streets, in the gateways and pubs of the elegant and disastrous Scottish capital. Here the Middle Ages are intricately intertwined with the achievements of progress. Here, modern medicine is born in bloody agony. Here women boldly challenge the world of men. The gloomy brainchild of Ambrose Perry - the union of a successful male writer and a female doctor with twenty years of experience. In a merciless city, no one cares about the painful deaths of several girls. No one except the young doctor Will Raven and the maid Sarah Fisher. Will is involved in a huge medical discovery. Sarah is obsessed with a thirst for knowledge and is quite capable of outperforming a novice physician. They do not love each other. He is her - for his violent temper and clear conscience, which he himself cannot boast of. She is his because all paths are open to men, and she is destined to remain an unfulfilled talented self-taught person. Everyone has their own hidden reason to reveal the secret of these cruel deaths...