After a difficult divorce, Julia wants to start a new life and buys an old house in the suburbs of Boston that she likes, despite the fact that the previous owner was found dead on the property. Julia selflessly cultivates her garden and stumbles upon a skeleton that has lain in the ground for about two centuries. The medical examiner reports that it was a young woman who died a violent death. A fact that is not very pleasant for the owner of the house is two deaths in the same place, under unclear circumstances... However, old documents left over from the previous owner of the house shed light on them. Gradually, the mysterious story of the famous 19th-century surgeon and talented poet Oliver Wendell Holmes and the West End Ripper is revealed to Julia...