XIX century, Edinburgh, Scotland Jessie Lockhart writes to her sister that she has become a doctor's wife. She is frightened by the fact that her husband is conducting hitherto unprecedented medical experiments on the bodies of the deceased. Each time her letters become darker. Jessie believes in ghosts and curses, and it seems to her that a banshee is crying for her in the forest... Our days After a quarrel with her fiancé, Stella leaves London. In rural Scotland, she takes a job on the estate of Jamie Munro, a doctor and writer who is much feared in the village. Fifteen years ago, his parents drowned while on a yacht, and since then Munro's house has been called cursed. There is a popular belief that Jamie is experimenting on people. Despite Jamie's bad reputation, Stella falls in love with him. She wants to prove that the rumors are unfounded. But he finds much more. Including old letters from a certain Jessie.