In life of Эмили Уилсон, once luckiest girl of New York, a dark stripe comes. Creative crisis, cool relationships with native, and then and treason of husband вынуждают Эмили to leave from a megalopolis and leave on an island Bainbridge to the once removed grandmother Би, in a house dog-violets grow next to that, and an ocean froths straight at a porch. On an island Эмили meets with charisma Jack that tells to her amusing history oh volume, as it was not let him in childhood to go too close near her house. But, seems, Би is not too content with their acquaintance. Эмили does not get no explanations from her, but soon finds dated 1943 by a year diary of some Esther Johnson, whose records throw light on strange behavior of locals and change the look of Эмили to the island that she adored from childhood.